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I agree; man pages are normally used (in my experience) to describe how to access program control instructions, such as parameters, description and exit codes.<BR>
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I think the best approach would be this split, with a static html (or other format) of the wiki documentation included in the distributable archive.<BR>
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On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 08:50 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">In message <<A HREF="mailto:498FEDE4.7060108@redpill-linpro.com">498FEDE4.7060108@redpill-linpro.com</A>>, Per Andreas Buer writes:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>Hi,</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>There is a lot of confusion regarding the documentation. Some of it is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>in the wiki and some of it is in the manual. Some of it is missing - but</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>as always, we're working on that. :-)</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>Should we drop the man pages? Should we drop all of them or just "man</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>vcl"? Dropping a man page would men we would incorporate the content</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>into the wiki - maybe adding a few extra ACL's on the pages to restrict</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>editing.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I think there should be a manpage for the executables, varnishd, varnishlog,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">varnishstat etc.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">But for documenting the overall workings and VCL in particular, manpages</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">suffer badly from the inability to include sensible illustrations.</FONT>
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