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From: | GNU bug Tracking System |
Subject: | [debbugs-tracker] bug#20035: closed (GNU coreutils 8.4 October 2014 TR(1)) |
Date: | Sun, 08 Mar 2015 11:41:02 +0000 |
Your message dated Sun, 08 Mar 2015 11:40:12 +0000 with message-id <address@hidden> and subject line Re: bug#20035: GNU coreutils 8.4 October 2014 TR(1) has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #20035, regarding GNU coreutils 8.4 October 2014 TR(1) to be marked as done. (If you believe you have received this mail in error, please contact address@hidden) -- 20035: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20035 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact address@hidden with problems
--- Begin Message ---Subject: GNU coreutils 8.4 October 2014 TR(1) Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 22:11:21 -0500 Hi,This is not a bug report.I just wanted to say, it would be SO nice if you could include 3 or 45 examples in the man pages.It would have made my life easier.It took me a while and a Google search to get it to work.Please write documentation for people who need documentation.Don't write documentation for people who don't need documentation.ThanksJim--James Geller
Department of Computer Science, NJIT
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--- Begin Message ---Subject: Re: bug#20035: GNU coreutils 8.4 October 2014 TR(1) Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 11:40:12 +0000 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 On 08/03/15 03:11, James Geller wrote: > Hi, > > This is not a bug report. > > I just wanted to say, it would be SO nice if you could include 3 or 45 > examples in the man pages. > > It would have made my life easier. > It took me a while and a Google search to get it to work. > > Please write documentation for people who need documentation. > Don't write documentation for people who don't need documentation. The man pages are a trade-off between brevity and completeness. The full docs have examples: http://www.gnu.org/s/coreutils/tr The next version of the man pages will link directly to the above. Hence I'm closing this. thanks, Pádraig.
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