More Leopard Trouble

Another bump in the road has been with the UNIX documentation. While looking through information about the ls command for Mixup I noticed discrepancies with the output from my manual pages and the online Leopard manual pages.

10.5: View the new ‘man’ pages on upgraded systems

In Leopard, many man pages (the documentation for Mac OS X's UNIX commands) are compressed with gzip. This is a very good idea but, if you upgraded to Leopard from Tiger, the old man pages are left in place by the installer (this is a bug)</strong>. </blockquote> Whenever I called up man for a specific command, man would consult the older uncompressed version which would result in me looking at 10.4 documentation. This was frustrating and reflects poorly on Apple. Why this wasn't caught prior to a general release through Apple's beta program makes one wonder about the prevalence of developers who use UNIX tools.