What's the justification for putting incomplete information in the manpages that's already available to another text tool on the same package?
It is a compromise for users like yourself who expect things to be in man pages (the man pages we produce as really --help formated using troff; it is better to just use --help). On the GNU system and its variants like Debiaan GNU/Linux, the standard for documentation is infact info, and not man pages. This has been the case for over 20 years. If you don't like GNU info, you can try the info reader in Emacs, or pinfo. And if you are still unhappy, you can browse our manuals in various formats like PDF, web pages or buy them in the form of dead trees from http://shop.fsf.org/. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
