On 12 April 2016 at 21:49, Theo Buehler <t...@math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 03:37:42PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
>> Marc Espie wrote:
>> > Parentheses are okay in urls, so I see no reason why:
>> >
>> > man.openbsd.org/carp(4)
>> >
>> > shouldn't work.
>>
>> There are an astounding number of text to html URL parsers/highlighters that
>> cannot quite handle parentheses. That's not our problem, but instead of 
>> trying
>> to boil the ocean, maybe just man.openbsd.org/carp.4 would work. after all,
>> that's the filename to be rendered.
>
> It does work :)
>
> http://man.openbsd.org/carp.4
>
> It's documented under "URI interface" point 4 here:
>
> http://man.openbsd.org/mandoc/man8/man.cgi.8
>

hey, you're all getting it wrong! http://man.openbsd.org/4/carp is the
right way to go (-;

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