Entry

Does djbdns come with man pages?

Aug 5th, 2002 06:43
Brian Coogan,

djbdns does not presently come with man pages in the package from the 
author, but Gerrit Pape translates the supplied web documentation into 
man pages and they are available from:
  http://innominate.org/~pape/djb/
Gerrit tracks the latest released version of djbdns.  On Debian Linux 
the manpages can be set up in apt for easy update.  They have to be 
manually installed on other Unix versions.  (Gerrit also makes Debian 
djbdns binaries available at 
http://innominate.org/~pape/Debian/djbdns.html)
The background to this:  Dan Bernstein distributes documentation only 
in html form.  This seems partly because he believes documentation is 
best kept on the web, where the latest copy can always be available 
and up-to-date, and partly because he prefers html as a format.  This 
means that if you're struggling with something, especially if the 
feature is new, you'd be wise to check the online documentation as 
well as the manpages to see if anything has been added.
Dan makes the html-style documentation available via:
    http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/doc.tar.gz
Dan has a slashdoc script that can be used to view this documentation 
online:
    http://cr.yp.to/slashdoc.html
Dan's notes on installing the documentation are at:
    http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/installdoc.html