Re: Do have programs have poor documentation?
On Sunday 01 January 2017 14:46:30 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I cannot recall ever seeing a more complete information about
> > anything I ever looked up, telling me something that wasn't in the
> > man page.
>
> Compare
> man ls
> and
> info ls
>
> The chapter of ls in coreutils.info is much longer than the man page.
> It gives some background information for the options which are grouped
> by * Which files are listed::
> * What information is listed::
> * Sorting the output::
> * Details about version sort::
> * General output formatting::
> * Formatting file timestamps::
> * Formatting the file names::
I believe that is all in my man page on ls, its quite lengthy here on
this wheezy system. If not, then its the exception that proves the rule.
> That's central GNU homeland, of course. The situation in other regions
> of GNU/Linux varies heavily.
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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