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  From: Jake Hawkes <jake@infinitylimited.net>
  To  : David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:49:17 +0930

Re: Bash Shell Scriping resource?

David Newall wrote:
> 

maybe i should have inserted...
<troll>
> > Mr. Newall may or may not agree with this, but I think the bash man page
> > is OK.
</troll>
> 
> You wag, you!  I'm always extolling the virtues of man pages.  What I criticise
> is Linux's lack of them, and GNU's insistence on replacing them with some half-assed
> texinfo.  For example:
> 
> $ man cat
> ...
>        This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be inaccurate or
>        incomplete.  The Texinfo documentation is now the authoritative source.

This pisses me off greatly. For one, what has changed in cat, and two,
man pages should never get smaller. Yeah, there are example of some
(PAM) that suck badly, and others (fetchmail) that are excellent. Others
(bash) fall somewhere inbetween.

Jake

P.S. whats a "wag"?
--
Jake Hawkes B.Eng, (CSE)

"I'm only smart enough to know how stupid I am", Joe Strummer.

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