Re: [Bug-tar] tar auto detect compression

[Joerg Schilling]

Mark Krenz <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 09:35:29AM GMT, Sergey Poznyakoff address@hidden said 
> the following:
> > 
> > No, and there are no plans of doing so either. Tar is fully documented
> > in texinfo format. The manual is included in the distribution. Apart
> > from that, it is available online in various formats at
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual. Given all that, I see no reason
> > in any additional man pages.
> > 
>
>   You make it sound like man pages are going away.

This is a false claim from Richard Stallman.....

The POSIX standard defines man pages and for this reason, man pages have the 
first priority for documentation. Whether or not there is additional 
documentation is another (less important) aspect.

And BTW: the fact that the man system offers a better user interface seems to 
be the reason why people are requesting man pages.

Wouldn't it be apropriate after more than 20 years, that the attempt to 
introduce a different documentation system by GNU failed and to switch to the 
standard?

Jörg

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