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Problems with mustang man pages

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      I looked at the new man pages for javac and found
      a couple of problems:

      - They contain headers and footers for every page.
        All other man pages I see only have a single
        footer at the end. This includes the currently
        released man pages for javac.1 on both linux and solaris

      - All other man pages contain items like this
        for See Also:

        jar(1), java(1), javadoc(1), javah(1), javap(1), jdb(1),

        The new pages contain this sort of thing:
             * java - the Java Application Launcher

             * jdb - Java Application Debugger

        This breaks the xemacs 'man' function -
        when you put the cursor on jar(1), it is highlighed
        and if you click, it brings up the man page

      - it has illegal use of \, ie all on one line:

              % javac -classpath /examples:/lib/Banners.jar \ /examples/greetings/Hi.java

        instead of
              % javac -classpath /examples:/lib/Banners.jar \
                                 /examples/greetings/Hi.java

        (I think the old man pages suffered from this too).


      - there is junk at the bottom:


         * The Java Extensions Framework @
           http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/extensions/index.html

        What is that @ ? This is an improvement over
        the junk at the bottom of the tiger man pages:

           See or search the Java web site for the following:

           The Java Extensions Mechanism
                @" 6
                http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/docs/guide/extensions/index.html

           Setting the Class Path
                @" 6
                http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/docs/tooldocs/solaris/classpath.html

            earmstrosunw Eric Armstrong (Inactive)
            jjh James Holmlund (Inactive)
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