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regarding springgraph: manpage doesn't document all ways to invoke
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A minor part of #474351 was forgotten. AFAICS springgraph's manpage wasn't
changed. The manpage doesn't mention the possibility to invoke springgraph
without redirecting standard IO. At
least piping to springgraph should be documented. As mentioned in the original
report:
This could be fixed by adding the general syntax
springgraph [OPTIONS]
and, if you wish, other possible combinations. But I think this is
superfluous, just the general syntax should be fine. However, the manpage
needs to explain where springgraph reads and writes. Alternatively, the
program itself could be changed to handle arguments properly (like, say, grep
and iconv). As I understand it, springgraph simply flushes arguments, which
doesn't help to reduce confusion.
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On Monday 14 July 2008 10:52, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > At least
> > springgraph [OPTIONS] > output-file.png which is often used when piping
> > to springgraph. But they should all be documented, which is why the
> > general syntax should appear.
>
> A user that knows what in/output redirection is knows that he can replace
> a file read from standard in with a pipe from a program. In the unlikely
> case he knows what < does but doens't know what | does, the springgraph
> man page is not the place to be teaching those basic unix skills.
Closing as per explanation above.
Thijs
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