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Re: man pages



>From: Michael Stone <mstone@cs.loyola.edu>

>On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:22:34PM +0200, schilling@fokus.gmd.de wrote:
>> To go back to the subject of the thread: one important point of a unique
>> system is to have man pages (at least) for all basic commands and utilities.

>To go back to the subject of the LSB, man pages have nothing to do with
>being able to run a binary accross distributions. 

Of course thay have: think about the fact that different distributions use
different programs with the same name but slightly different functionality.
If you have no man page for them as it is currently the case you have no luck.



Jörg

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