Re: Forward: Re: FAQ bug

2002-02-12 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> I really like the current manual and I can't see > what is wrong with it Pity. I spent some time showing you that (i) there is a lot of empty text, and (ii) the important things are missing. I don't know how to be more clear, so give up. Andries __

Re: FAQ bug

2002-02-11 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:53:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Large programs require three levels of information: > (i) Very short, 1-20 lines of text, a help message. > Something is wrong if one needs a pager to read a help message. > (ii) A description of the invocation, function, options used, >

Re: FAQ bug

2002-02-11 Thread Andries . Brouwer
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 11 05:45:55 2002 > Maybe the authors of grub would like the world to be different, > perhaps that would have been more convenient to grub, but reality > is that the partition type does not indicate the filesystem. > Not only does that fail for Hu

Re: FAQ bug

2002-02-11 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> Finding such stuff is a pain - why is there never a good man page > with a GNU program? http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_33.html#SEC33 Yes, I know. That is Stallman's mistake. Nevertheless, authors of GNU programs might include good man pages. Some do, see bash(1). Most don't,

Re: FAQ bug

2002-02-11 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:05:20 +0100, Christoph Plattner wrote: > But can the TeX system not also produce MAN pages as other > formats like info, ps, html ? A program called "texi2roff" was created a long time ago, but the program is not maintained any longer. See , for more i

Re: FAQ bug

2002-02-10 Thread Christoph Plattner
One question concerning DOCU: I am NOT the expert on that question ! But can the TeX system not also produce MAN pages as other formats like info, ps, html ? So it should be easy then, to have a MAN page additional for at least /sbin/grub. But again, I am NOT an expert on that stuff. Bye Chris

Re: FAQ bug

2002-02-10 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Sat, 9 Feb 2002 08:22:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Finding such stuff is a pain - why is there never a good man page > with a GNU program? http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_33.html#SEC33 > Maybe the authors of grub would like the world to be different, > perhaps that would have been mor

FAQ bug

2002-02-09 Thread Andries . Brouwer
I was just trying to find out how to do "lilo -R label" with grub. Finding such stuff is a pain - why is there never a good man page with a GNU program? Came to the FAQ section in the info file. It says: = GRUB does not recognize my GNU/Hurd partition. I don't know why, but the authors o