At 06:18 PM 5/4/99 +0000, Richard Adams wrote [abridged]:
>According to Ralph Stickley:
>> I've been using 'man' for information about commands. However, about half of
>> the commands are telling me that the man pages are obsolete (see 'man
ls'). >>I
>> suppose there is a TeX command that displays the latest information, but
I can't
>> seem to figure out what that is...
>'man ls' has no mention of "obsolete" on my newly installed slackware-3.6,
>also doing a zgrep of /usr/man/man8 it shows that 11 files have the word
>"obsolete" not one says, this page is obsolete.
I'm only guessing, but the original poster (Ralph) was probably using the
word "obsolete" as a paraphrase of the sentence: "This documentation is no
longer being maintained and may be inaccurate or incomplete. The Texinfo
documentation is now the authoritative source." On my (Slack 3.5) system,
this is a common disclaimer in newer gnu-based man pages (though not the one
for ls).
Texinfo, BTW, refers to the info command I mentioned in my earlier posting.
It is not a reference to TeX.
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