Nice work. +1

On 14-May-2017 6:09 PM, "Abhinav Upadhyay" <er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
> >     Date:        Sat, 13 May 2017 10:39:49 +0530
> >     From:        Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com>
> >     Message-ID:  <CAHwRYJngr_QhFdyH4pDSWQThWHcX5bCjzM7poEQy5OSf_M=
> 7...@mail.gmail.com>
> >
> >   | I would have to fire the query on each of them and combine the
> results.
> >
> > The combining part is probably not so important...  The kind of user
> > who is doing a query like "I am trying to find out how to tie my
> > shoelaces, which man page should I read for that?" (who would normally
> > only care about the man pages from the system they use) but rather for
> > the user who wants to write portable code, and wants to call the
> > shoelace(O_TIE) function. but wants to write it in a portable way,
> > so would like to check to make sure all the relevant systems have
> > the shoelace() function call, and that they all treat the O_TIE
> > option the same way...
> >
> > For that, just listing them as:
> >
> >         From NetBSD-current:
> >                 result1
> >                 result2
> >
> >         From FreeBSD-11.0
> >                 result1
> >                 result2
> >
> > (etc) would be good enough.
>
> I have added something along those lines: http://man-k.org/whatis
>
> I didn't want to change the dropdown in the main search page to a
> checkbox based one, therefore put this on a page of its own. I will
> try to provide a hyperlink to it from the main page.
>
> (The UI might look a bit ugly but I hope someone will come along and
> help out with CSS :))
>
> -
> Abhinav
>

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