Bug#2002: Missing manpages
'Bill Mitchell wrote:'
>
>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.
On my old Slackware I have man pages for diff, diff3, and cmp. So
it's not like someone has to start from scratch. I don't know the
copyright on these man pages because slakware preformats everything
<grumble>.
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