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Re: where to put documentation of programs that accompany libc?
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:43:36 -0800
- Subject: Re: where to put documentation of programs that accompany libc?
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> Bruno Haible wrote:
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> > - Start a new manual for the programs that accompany libc?
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> I very much prefer this. The libc manual is not the place people look
> for the information regarding the programs.
>
> info programname
>
> should show the page.
This is an orthogonal issue. That works if there is an entry in the
central dir file, which can be set up regardless of which manual contains
the nodes describing a given program.