On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:35:08AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > In man pages written by the FSF I see this advisory: > > SEE ALSO > The full documentation for sync is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If > the info and sync programs are properly installed at your site, the > command > info coreutils sync > should give you access to the complete manual. > > which seems to imply that the man page does not contain the 'complete manual'. > > Every time I've gone to the info page, it has contained the same information > though sometimes broken into smaller chunks it's all been there. > > Has anyone seen am example where there was any more information in the info > pages than the man pages? > The gcc package (I think) is a good example. If you install the gcc-doc (or whichever one corresponds to your version, like gcc4.1-doc) then you get the complete manual in the info pages. I think that it is because the FSF and GNU have a preference for info over man. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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