On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 04:07, Davor Cengija wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, pesarif wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Does anyone know where the manpage for the "diff" command is?
> > It was there in Mandrake 7.2, but in Mandrake 8.0, it's gone :(
> > All my other manpages seem to work e.g. ls, gcc.
> > I hate info pages so please don't tell me to "info diff" :)
> >
> > [root@tux350 /root]# man diff
> > No manual entry for diff
> > [root@tux350 /root]# rpm -q man-pages
> > man-pages-1.35-2mdk
>
>       It's all there (at least it should be).
>
> [root@mandrake davor]# rpm -ql diffutils
> /usr/bin/cmp
> /usr/bin/diff
> /usr/bin/diff3
> /usr/bin/sdiff
> /usr/share/doc/diffutils-2.7
> /usr/share/doc/diffutils-2.7/NEWS
> /usr/share/doc/diffutils-2.7/README
> /usr/share/info/diff.info-1.bz2
> /usr/share/info/diff.info-2.bz2
> /usr/share/info/diff.info-3.bz2
> /usr/share/info/diff.info-4.bz2
> /usr/share/info/diff.info.bz2
> /usr/share/man/man1/cmp.1.bz2
> /usr/share/man/man1/diff.1.bz2
> /usr/share/man/man1/diff3.1.bz2
> /usr/share/man/man1/sdiff.1.bz2
> [root@mandrake davor]#
>
>       Maybe your man configuration is messed up? Check
>       /etc/man.config.
>

[root@tux350 /root]# rpm -q diffutils --list
/usr/bin/cmp
/usr/bin/diff
/usr/bin/diff3
/usr/bin/sdiff
/usr/share/doc/diffutils-2.7
/usr/share/doc/diffutils-2.7/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/diffutils-2.7/README
/usr/share/info/diff.info-1.bz2
/usr/share/info/diff.info-2.bz2
/usr/share/info/diff.info-3.bz2
/usr/share/info/diff.info-4.bz2
/usr/share/info/diff.info.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/cmp.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/diff3.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/sdiff.1.bz2

This is the Mandrake 8 2-CD/free version.  Are you using the same version?
It seems to have every man page there except normal "diff" :(

>       Also, try info pages by running
>
> info <prog_name>
>
>         or even better, pinfo
>
> [root@mandrake etc]# rpm -q pinfo
> pinfo-0.6.3-2mdk

Just wondering, but if I'm using normal info, how do I move back and foward, 
like I can in pinfo or lynx/links?

Thanks,
pesarif

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