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Re: ls manpage incomplete
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Richard Guy Briggs |
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Re: ls manpage incomplete |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:53:21 -0400 |
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:46:10AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> What's the justification for putting incomplete information in the
> manpages that's already available to another text tool on the same
> package?
>
> It is a compromise for users like yourself who expect things to be in
> man pages (the man pages we produce as really --help formated using
> troff; it is better to just use --help). On the GNU system and its
> variants like Debiaan GNU/Linux, the standard for documentation is
> infact info, and not man pages. This has been the case for over 20
> years.
The standard for documentation has been man for longer than that... It
should be complete.
> If you don't like GNU info, you can try the info reader in Emacs, or
> pinfo. And if you are still unhappy, you can browse our manuals in
> various formats like PDF, web pages or buy them in the form of dead
> trees from http://shop.fsf.org/.
I already addressed all that.
slainte mhath, RGB
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- ls manpage incomplete, Richard Guy Briggs, 2009/07/09
- Re: ls manpage incomplete, Eric Blake, 2009/07/09
- Re: ls manpage incomplete, Richard Guy Briggs, 2009/07/09
- Re: ls manpage incomplete, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/07/10
- Re: ls manpage incomplete, Eric Blake, 2009/07/10
- Re: ls manpage incomplete,
Richard Guy Briggs <=
- Re: ls manpage incomplete, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/07/10
- Re: ls manpage incomplete, Richard Guy Briggs, 2009/07/10
- Re: ls manpage incomplete, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/07/10
- Re: ls manpage incomplete, Matej Cepl, 2009/07/13
- Re: ls manpage incomplete, James Youngman, 2009/07/11
- Re: ls manpage incomplete, Richard Guy Briggs, 2009/07/11