Paul E Condon wrote: > Tom H wrote: > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Tom H wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: > > >> >> This is the same url as the previous (grub1) manual, so as far as gnu is > > >> >> concerned, there must only be one grub... > > >> > > > >> > How bad! :-( They have moved on. It doesn't benefit the upstream to keep two versions active. For better or for worse this is mostly how all upstreams work. > > >> > There are still people using Grub legacy and online manual is very useful > > >> > (i.e., for pointing someone to a specific paragraph or give it a quick > > >> > review). True. But you can always quote the parts to which you are referring. > > The first has the following at the top: > > 'You can browse the documentation of GNU GRUB by "info grub" on your > > shell prompt (or use your favorite Info browser, if you don't like > > info).' > > > > Strange decision... Why is that strange? The official documentation for GNU projects is texinfo documentation. It has been this way for a very long time. Since grub is a GNU package I expect it to follow the GNU guidelines. With GNU it is all about the source. Debian on the other hand requires man pages. And therefore Debian for the most part provides man pages. But sometimes that is difficult when there aren't any upstream. Some Debian maintainers create them but not all. > I'm sorry for my misunderstanding of your relationship to this > wierdness. And thanks for your added information that access to the > old docs is decaying as we speak. Not good, IMHO. Why are you depending upon the html documentation? What is wrong with the documentation included with the grub package? $ sudo apt-get install grub-legacy-doc $ info grub # for Lenny stable $ info grub-legacy # for Squeeze/Sid Those that are using the legacy grub have full access to the documentation for it. Bob P.S. Paul, you need to upgrade your system to handle UTF-8 characters. :-) Your mutt seems configured to produce only us-ascii. Check your send_charset setting. But it may be other problems.
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