[OpenIndiana-discuss] /usr/share/man/man7/mel.7

[Reginald Beardsley]

I hope all will forgive a bit of levity.

Many years ago I typeset "The Story of Mel" and installed it on the company man pages so that a user typing, "man mel" would be presented w/ "The Story of Mel".

I'd always assumed the story was probably fictional, but in looking it up via google this evening to show a friend who is of the hardcore, really small, embedded system persuasion, I discovered that it has bona fides to be a true story.  There's a design document, programming sheet w/ signature and an acknowledgment in a system manual to support this.

I'd like to propose that Open Indiana preserve "The Story of Mel" as a system man page. If no one has strong objections and the person maintaining the man pages agrees, I'll be happy to redo the typesetting and submit it.

Happy New Year to all!
Reg