[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) siad:
> If their copyright is acceptable, why not put them in the package? FSF
> (really Richard Stallman) is attempting to discourage the use of man
> pages and replace them with info pages. Info pages have the disadvantage
> of requiring a navigation mechanism to
Susan, are you on the debian-devel list? It might be a good idea if
you're not. It is a high traffic list. That may prevent you from
wanting it.
Costa
Before I knew about the Free-BSD man pages, I started to build man pages
for the diff utilities from the diff info file and from their usage
statements. In particular, I had made a man page for 'cmp' that way. When
you (Jeff) pointed out the existence of the FreeBSD page, I incorporated
informati
> I still don't see what's wrong with the FreeBSD manpages. They were written
> specifically for the GNU programs we're using, and they have been useful to me
> on a number of occasions.
If their copyright is acceptable, why not put them in the package? FSF
(really Richard Stallman) is attempting
> I'm closing this bug report because there's no intent to address this
> issue.
>
[snip]
>
> Yes, if the manpages are generated automatically from the info files.
> Otherwise, sorry, it's probably too much of a pain to maintain it,
> though I might be willing to put in man pages but say they're no
I'm closing this bug report because there's no intent to address this
issue.
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 11 19:50:58 1995
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 19:50:30 -0800
From: Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: diff 2,7, and lack of man
'Bill Mitchell wrote:'
>
>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
> 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 leav
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 abou
Package: diff
Version: 2.7
Revision: 5
This package provides no man pages for any of diff, diff3, sdiff, or
cmp.
Owen
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