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no fair only at the end mentioning where the complete manual is


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: no fair only at the end mentioning where the complete manual is
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:09:24 +0800

The GNU man pages have a big flaw, e.g.,

  DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page  documents  the  GNU version of df.  df displays the

But only when the reader gets to the bottom of the page does he discover:

  SEE ALSO
       The  full  documentation  for df is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
       the info and df programs are properly installed at your site, the  com-
       mand

              info df

       should give you access to the complete manual.

No fair telling them so late where the complete manual is.

(P.S., on Debian one needs "info cor(eutils) df" lest one be again
staring at the man page.)




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