Bug#2002: Missing manpages

To: "Owen S. Dunn" <osd1000@cam.ac.uk>, debian-bugs@Pixar.com
Subject: Bug#2002: Missing manpages
From: Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 18:58:01 -0800 (PST)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.SUN.3.91.951210185332.3917B-100000@bb29c>
Reply-to: Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>, debian-bugs@Pixar.com
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.951211012753.20316K-100000@tacitus.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk>

On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Owen S. Dunn wrote:

> Package: diff
> Version: 2.7
> Revision: 5
>
> This package provides no man pages for any of diff, diff3, sdiff, or
> cmp.

Too true.  It comes with info pages, which are not at all the same thing.

I think the current custom is to leave bug reports about this particular
issue open, so I'm not closing this one.  I doubt, however, that I'll get
around to writing a man page and contributing it upstream in hopes that
it'll be picked up.

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  - From: "Owen S. Dunn" <osd1000@cam.ac.uk>

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