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SubjectRe: Stupid df tricks
ralf@uni-koblenz.de writes:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 10:15:25AM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > ralf@uni-koblenz.de writes:
> > >
> > > These options are non-standard. Worse, the FSF maintainer of the binutils
> > > in it's infinite wisdom decieded to only maintain the texinfo documentation
> > > but no longer the nroff man pages, so the newer features aren't documented
> > > in the manpages anymore. Nevertheless filutils and several other packages
> > > are shipping with the man pages included. To be fair, the man pages have
> > > a note at their top about this fact. Yet the fact that more people,
> > > especially Real Users (TM) don't touch the info pages with a ten feet
> > > pole because the standard reader info(1) is in no way userfriendly stays.
> >
> > You're pissing in the wind here. This is typical FSF arrogance. This
> > whole bloody texinfo thing is being shoved down our collective
> > throats. It really pisses me off that these tools no longer come with
> > up-to-date manual pages. It's these sort of things that makes GNU
> > utilities incompatible with UNIX. So much for a drop-in replacement.
>
> GNU is not UNIX.

From http:://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html
"The GNU project has developed a complete free software system named
``GNU'' (GNU's Not Unix) that is upwardly compatible with Unix."

Upwardly compatible means you support the existing system (UNIX) while
possibly adding new features. If they want to add texinfo, fine. Just
keep supporting manual pages, so you can honestly claim to be upwardly
compatible.

Regards,

Richard....

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