From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:36:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070719133656.8527f513.hilse@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184804758.7158.47.camel@orpheus>
Hi,
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan
<iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but
> what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of
> them is very deficient (in grub's case, man). The description is
> different, less informative, and quite misleading. Instead, is
> should say either nothing but "refer to info pages"; or it should be
> the same as the info pages...
Yeah, like a short synopsis and then a clear reference, let's say along
the lines of
----snip----
The full documentation for grub is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and grub programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info grub
should give you access to the complete manual.
----snip----
But looking at grub(8), it seems someone was faster. SCNR.
-hwh
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 22:50 [gentoo-user] grub chainloader Thufir
2007-07-17 23:12 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2007-07-17 23:51 ` Thufir
2007-07-18 12:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-07-18 12:35 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-07-18 14:20 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 15:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-07-18 16:06 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 17:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-07-19 7:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-07-19 0:31 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-07-18 13:30 ` Александър Л. Димитров
2007-07-18 19:35 ` Thufir
2007-07-19 0:25 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-07-19 0:51 ` Thufir
2007-07-19 11:36 ` Hans-Werner Hilse [this message]
2007-07-19 14:02 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-07-18 0:02 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-07-18 6:53 ` Mick
2007-07-18 15:36 ` Neil Bothwick
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2007-07-19 7:14 burlingk
2007-07-19 6:25 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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