At 05:19 PM 05/17/2000 +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:50:43AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> Why are man pages abandoned for info?
Only FSF do that. Debian _requires_ manpages for all.
-- but many man pages say "not maintained, use info."
so it is not just formatting them, but getting the relevant info.
BUGS
The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create
info documents instead. The maintainer of tar falls into
this category. This man page is neither complete, nor
current, and was included in the Debian Linux packaging of
tar entirely to reduce the frequency with which the lack
of a man page gets reported as a bug in our defect track
ing system.
If you really want to understand tar, then you should run
info and read the tar info pages, or use the info mode in
emacs.
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