From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Mar 29 11:20:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 642D637B41B for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:20:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2TJK2B07291; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:20:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:20:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203291920.g2TJK2B07291@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Subject: Re: docs/36464: diff(1) manual doesn't explain "=format". Reply-To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/36464; it has been noted by GNATS. From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/36464: diff(1) manual doesn't explain "=format". Date: 29 Mar 2002 11:16:22 -0800 Giorgos Keramidas writes: > There is a description of "formats" in the GNU diff info documentation. > You're right that we probably need to point the user to info docs in the > manpage though. GNU programs tend to have more complete and up to date > info documentation than manpages :-/ Good idea; I should have thought of the info pages. Most of the Linux GNUish manuals have, close to the top, a very ugly comment about the manual being obsolete trash and how you should be using info. I'm sure you'll show more tact. (I actually prefer the info scheme to manual pages, but that's a PR I'll never write. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message