On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:57:25AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I have some reservations about this. Along with potential false hopes
> > during load time, the undocumented page provides pointers to places where
> > documentation may be found. It may be irritating to people in the know,
> > but since man is still the most widely known unix documentation interface,
> > new users may be helped by these pointers.
>
> I completely agree that the undocumented(7) page is useful to new users.
> That's why I suggest that it should remain on the system, and that man
> should provide a much more lightweight pointer to it when no manual page
> is found. My development version of man currently says:
>
> $ src/man wibble
> No manual entry for wibble
> See 'man 7 undocumented' for help with undocumented features.
Perhaps "undocumented features" is not the best of phrases, someone might
think it's for exploits and such :)
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