On 08-Oct-03, 15:40 (CDT), Moray Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed. Why do you assume that there would be Debian-specific documents? > [snip] > Indeed. Why do you assume there would be info documents? > [snip]
I think he was just noting that he'd looked in all the different typical places for documentation. > I suspect you'd save time on Debian systems by looking for man pages > before other possible forms of documentation. It varies. There's a lot of manpages that point to info pages, or HTML under /usr/share/doc/. Not to mention good old undocumented(7). > > Hmm, --help does not display help, nor does -h. > > Do you usually feed programmes random options not included in their > man pages? Random? Hardly. Programs that don't recognize (at least one of) -h or --help, even if only to point the user at the real documentation, are buggy. This is a long standing Unix convention, and is one of the first things that ought to be implemented in a new package. IF nothing else, it can say "No docs yet" so the poor user doesn't waste her time looking for them. > Please file bugs rather than ranting on debian-devel. But this is exactly the correct answer. Problems with individual packages are exactly that. If you want a problem fixed, file a bug. If the solution to the problem needs to be discussed in a wider venue, then it will be. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net