Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> P> I think it's better not to mention dot insted.  Dot is no longer
> P> portable (as per POSIX-2001).
>
> Well, mention that dot is deprecated, or else users can't tell if it
> is too old, or too new, when encountering it.

That issue is already covered in the texinfo version of the manual.

The man page (and the --help message) is deliberately a subset of the
full manual, and obsolete features normally don't make the cut.


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