Re: [Patch] Adding examples to the man pages

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:09:28PM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: (gilbertd = Dave Gilbert, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) gilbertd> So if I finish off the rest of the coreutils set in a gilbertd> manner similar to the patch I sent are you happy to take gilbertd> it? AMS> I'm not the maintainer o

Coreutils-5.2.1 make check fails on Solaris 9

I encountered an error running make check on coreutils-5.2.1 on Solaris 9. I found a similar thread ( http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-10/msg00035.html ), where the problem turned out to be the windows client. I use PuTTY 0.57 to connect to the host. I'd like to know if PuTTY

Re: [Patch] Adding examples to the man pages

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: This is unfortunate, since coreutils contains tools which are heavily used by beginners as well as expert users. Beginners should read the info pages to begin with, since they contain more useful information then the man pages. So I fail to see how this argument ho

ls and chmod broken on Solaris 9 - ACL problem?

We've discovered a bug in the ACL handling on Solaris 9. It noticably breaks ls and chmod. Here are some details: deneb % uname -a SunOS deneb 5.9 Generic_117171-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 deneb % coreutils/bin/ls --version ls (coreutils) 5.2.1 Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.

synced mktime.c and strtol.c from intprops.h

When I updated intprops.h I forgot to make similar modifications to mktime.c and strtol.c. I installed this patch to fix that. 2005-03-14 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * mktime.c (TYPE_TWOS_COMPLEMENT, TYPE_ONES_COMPLEMENT, TYPE_SIGNED_MAGNITUDE, TYPE_MINIMUM, TYPE_MAXIMUM):

Re: [Patch] Adding examples to the man pages

Info pages, powerful as they are, are almost exclusively GNU only. Man is the universal source of documentation for Unix like systems and it seems to me that the basics should be in man pages And this has absolutley no relevance, GNU's Not Unix, and Info pages are where documentation is p

Re: [Patch] Adding examples to the man pages

This is unfortunate, since coreutils contains tools which are heavily used by beginners as well as expert users. Beginners should read the info pages to begin with, since they contain more useful information then the man pages. So I fail to see how this argument holds water. :) I, for

Re: [Patch] Adding examples to the man pages

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:12:16AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > I think it would be better to add this where it belongs, in the info > pages. That is the proper place to document this. The format for man > pages is very bad to provide proper documentation to users in either > case. You're ri

'cp -lL' behaviour conflicts with documentation

coreutils-5.2.1: $ mkdir /tmp/foo $ cp -lL /lib/libc.so.6 /tmp/foo $ ls -l /tmp/foo total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 13 Mar 8 10:59 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.4.so The man page says that -L always dereferences symbolic links, but when used in conjuction with -l (link files instead of copying) this is

Re: [Patch] Adding examples to the man pages

I think it would be better to add this where it belongs, in the info pages. That is the proper place to document this. The format for man pages is very bad to provide proper documentation to users in either case. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-cor