> On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Owen S. Dunn wrote:
> > Package: diff
> > Version: 2.7
> > Revision: 5
> >
> > This package provides no man pages for any of diff, diff3, sdiff, or
> > cmp.
>
> Too true. It comes with info pages, which are not at all the same thing.
>
> I think the current custom is to leave bug reports about this particular
> issue open, so I'm not closing this one. I doubt, however, that I'll get
> around to writing a man page and contributing it upstream in hopes that
> it'll be picked up.
I wrote Patrick Volkerding about this a few months ago. I've attached
a piece of our correspondence.
I think it would be great if we could add these manpages. Something
is better than nothing. I can't stand `info'. :)
Jeff
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From: "Patrick J. Volkerding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNU wonders where you got diff.1?
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On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> The author of GNU diff, the Debian diff maintainer, and myself are all
> wondering where you got the diff manpage. It's not part of the GNU diff
> distribution, and the author says he can't recall there ever being
> a GNU diff manpage... Yet you have one. :)
>
> Any idea where it came from? Do you have nroff source?
I got 'em from FreeBSD. Jordan Hubbard told me they needed manpages for
cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff, so they wrote ones. You guys are also
welcome to use them.
Take care,
Pat
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