Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:45:00PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:26:54PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:57:25AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > I completely agree that the undocumented(7) page is useful to new users.
> > > That's why I suggest that it should remain on the system, and that man
> > > should provide a much more lightweight pointer to it when no manual page
> > > is found. My development version of man currently says:
> > >
> > > $ src/man wibble
> > > No manual entry for wibble
> > > See 'man 7 undocumented' for help with undocumented features.
> >
> > Perhaps "undocumented features" is not the best of phrases, someone might
> > think it's for exploits and such :)
>
> :-) Suggestions for better wording appreciated. Maybe just "for help
> when manual pages are not available"?
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How about "undocumented programs"? Since that *is* what Policy is trying
to deal with.
T
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