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Re: ls manpage incomplete

From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: ls manpage incomplete
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:42:15 -0600
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According to Richard Guy Briggs on 7/9/2009 2:57 PM:
> The ls(1) manpage is incomplete.  Why?  No, I don't want to use info(1).
> 
> GNU coreutils 6.10                                    April 2008

Consider upgrading - the latest stable version is 7.4.

That said, the man pages are generated from --help output, which is
necessarily compact.  What in particular do you think is missing, that
will not be too lengthy for inclusion?  The GNU project favors info pages
over man pages, whether or not you choose to read them.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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