On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2005-07-15 23:33:02 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > The manpage is correct, you should really type "info diff" and then
> > follow the "cmp" link. If you type "info cmp" you will see the manpage
> > for cmp, not the info pages for cmp.
> > 
> > You need to install the diff-doc package first, but this is suggested
> > by the diff package.
> 
> This is confusing, IMHO. When the manual is not installed, info should
> return an error, not the man page! Otherwise one can really think that
> everything has been installed.

I don't think it is confusing because whenever info shows you a manpage,
the output has the layout of a manpage.

In either case, that's a feature of the info program which has nothing
to do with the diff documentaton. Please talk to the info maintainer.


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