-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Reuben Thomas wrote: > The man pages wisely direct the reader to the info documentation, but > since coreutils's documentation is now in one big info file, "info cat", > for example, doesn't work (it gives me the man page again on my system); > you have to say "info coreutils cat". > > This is Debian bug #411722: > > http://bugs.debian.org/411722
That's actually an issue with Debian, not coreutils. Debian has had its own version of install-info; part of the dpkg package. This Debian install-info had failed to track with newer changes in GNU's install-info. GNU coreutils updates "dir" in such a way as to allow "info cat" to take you to the appropriate section in the coreutils info manual. It only works with GNU install-info, though. The last I heard, Debian was planning to migrate to using GNU's install-info, and remove the one from dpkg: http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/04/msg00031.html I do not know how far along this is. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/dpkg/+bug/38538 for additional information. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHHRRp7M8hyUobTrERCDCWAJ9sv+O7rLu1LlHMCamURCa3ahjOwwCfWcLq EIL3gz7EkAGHA5GlA2cCGc4= =Bqfj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
