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Re: Document for + seems to be missing in ls' document


From: Ray Dillinger
Subject: Re: Document for + seems to be missing in ls' document
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:37:40 -0700
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On 03/12/2015 01:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>  It's easy
> to use help2man to generate man pages from --help output, but I don't
> know of any good conversion from texinfo to man.  So the man page ends
> up being as concise as --help output, while including a pointer to the
> full documentation.

Hello!  Does the fact that you CANNOT pipe the texinfo pages through
a filter or a pager to easily format as man pages, somehow fail to
indicate to you that they are in fact LESS USEFUL than man pages,
precisely because the damn texinfo format doesn't play nice with
Unix command line tools?


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