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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-19 15:05 UTC|newest]

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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-19  7:14 burlingk
2007-07-19  6:25 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

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