On Tuesday 12 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yup, it does seem way over the top. Surely though there is some > rhyme to the reason. Man pages are such a large part of the very > essence of unix. It seems a serious shame that a user is better off > googling for `linux man ping' than the long standing `man ping'.
In the interest of benefiting the entire gentoo community, reducing frustration levels and helping fellow gentoo users from having to download 8M of stuff to get the ping man page restored to it's rightful place of honour, I hereby humbly offer the following miniscule attachment - the ping man page nicked off a conveniently located Ubuntu machine. At a mere 5539 bytes it's size is negligible compared to the bandwidth that will be otherwise consumed. Save attachment as /usr/local/share/man/man8/ping.8.gz then chown root:root /usr/local/share/man/man8/ping.8.gz chmod 0644 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ping.8.gz To round off the package I can supply suitable man pages for arping and tracepath as well at the grand size of 1481 and 1785 bytes respectively :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
ping.8.gz
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