Re: Incomplete man page on wget

[Mitra]

Sure - I understand that info is the preferred documentation for GNU, 
no problem there, but this is not going to be widely known to people 
who have grown up on --help and man, so there is a responsibility to 
let it be known IN MOST PEOPLE'S DEFAULT where to get the prefered 
documentation.

I would have a similar response to people who prefer to put the 
documentation online (e.g. php). There needs to be a pointer in the 
obvious places to lead people to the non-obvious places.  You can't 
assume that people know that GNU => Info.

- Mitra

At 12:12 AM +0200 17/9/03, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Mitra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Hi,

 Thanks for the response.

   I've never used Info before, except for documentation of emacs and
   very few things are documented there. I suggest it should be
   presumed that people will look at "man wget" or "wget --help" and
   make sure the documentation is either the same, or that there is a
   level of indirection to "info wget"
You are right.  The current man page does not seem to mention that it
is only an excerpt from the entire documentation, and that is a bug.
As for Info, note that Wget is a GNU program, and Info is the
preferred documentation format of the GNU project.


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