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Old 02-20-2008, 09:03 PM
CBFalconer
 
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Default Re: ls -l

Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
> CBFalconer wrote:
>
>> The system can generate man, info, ps, pdf, html, and text versions
>> from a single source. It's not the fault of the info system, but
>> the fault of the packager.

>
> You might have missed earlier messages in the thread: the man pages
> are present, but man pages from older versions of the package are
> more complete, while those from the newer version point the reader
> to the info page for additional details. I doubt that's a change
> made by the packager.


It's the packagers fault that he hasn't included the .info files,
or prepared the full man files if he doesn't want to include the
info system (which is foolish IMO).

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