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Re: [bug-mailutils] Documentation for 1.2


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: [bug-mailutils] Documentation for 1.2
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:32:06 +0300

Zakariah of Yehudah <address@hidden> ha escrit:

>       Is documentation available for this version?  It is the version
> included in the Debian "stable" release, but their "man" page refers
> to a web page
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html) that
> documents Mailutils 2.0, which is significantly different.

Debian has rather strange policies regarding the documentation, which
effectively cause most of GNU manuals to be excluded from their
distributions.

Each release of GNU mailutils is shipped with the documentation.
Normally it is installed by `make install' process. If it weren't
for Debian strangeness, you'd have it on your system too.

The easiest way to get the docs, is the following:

1. download the original tarball from

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-1.2.tar.gz

2. Untar it:

   tar xfz mailutils-1.2.tar.gz

3. Change to the doc/texinfo subdirectory:

   cd doc/texinfo

The documentation files are here, they are named mailutils.info*. Now
you have two possibilities:

I. You may view them directly using the following command:

   info -f ./mailutils.info

II. You can install them to wherever info files live on your system,
like this:

   cp mailutils.info /path/to/info-directory
   install-info --info-dir=/path/to/info-directory  mailutils.info
  
After this, you'll be able to access the documentation by simply
running `info mailutils'.

Regards,
Sergey




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