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On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:30 +0200, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: |
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> On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote: |
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> > Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? |
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> > maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! |
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> I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading) |
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[snip] |
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> Note that it's usually better to refer to the info command for more |
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> serious documentation about GNU tools in general. RMS and his guys don't |
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> exactly seem to like manpages that much that's what they have info for. |
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> They have their point, but that's another flame war ;-) |
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I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but what I |
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_don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of them is very |
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deficient (in grub's case, man). The description is different, less |
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informative, and quite misleading. Instead, is should say either |
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nothing but "refer to info pages"; or it should be the same as the info |
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pages... |
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would anyone agree? |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were |
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listening in gibberish. |
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-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) |
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