At 4:06 PM -0400 4/17/02, James Ralston wrote: >The second patch removes the double dashes from the NAME section of >the man pages. (Most catman/makewhatis packages expect only one dash, >and fail to catalog any of the qpopper package's man pages due to the >double dashes.)
That's a shame, since one hyphen is incorrect usage. What's really wanted here is an em-dash, and the way to represent an em-dash with US-ASCII is to use two hyphens. Sadly, (mis)using just one hyphen is all too common.
