Re: info format (was Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4)

Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
09 Aug 1999 12:44:26 +0200


"Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> writes:

|> To take the discussion one step further, one of my own personal pet
|> peeves is out of date/incorrect/inconsistent/missing man pages. Lots of
|> people (myself included) habitually rely on man pages as THE RTFM
|> mechanism. It is infinitely annoying to read, e.g., the crypt() man
|> page and to see no reference to the fact that crypt, via libc6/glibc and
|> even some versions of libc5, now supports MD5 transparently or any
|> instructions on how to make that happen. Sure, it is in info libc,
|> three layers deep, as a crypt crossreference. info crypt, on the other
|> hand, returns the (obviously now obsolete) man page.

The latest libc docs have an entry for crypt. If the manual is installed
properly then "info crypt" will get you here.

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schwab@suse.de                                   completely different."
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