Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: info format (was Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4) | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 09 Aug 1999 12:44:26 +0200 |
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"Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> writes:
|> To take the discussion one step further, one of my own personal pet |> peeves is out of date/incorrect/inconsistent/missing man pages. Lots of |> people (myself included) habitually rely on man pages as THE RTFM |> mechanism. It is infinitely annoying to read, e.g., the crypt() man |> page and to see no reference to the fact that crypt, via libc6/glibc and |> even some versions of libc5, now supports MD5 transparently or any |> instructions on how to make that happen. Sure, it is in info libc, |> three layers deep, as a crypt crossreference. info crypt, on the other |> hand, returns the (obviously now obsolete) man page.
The latest libc docs have an entry for crypt. If the manual is installed properly then "info crypt" will get you here.
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