Bug 36464

Comment 1 Giorgos Keramidas 2002-03-29 15:24:28 UTC

On 2002-03-28 20:57, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

> The diff(1) manual uses "=format" at the end of many option syntax
> lines, but nowhere describes what "format" may be.

There is a description of "formats" in the GNU diff info documentation.
You're right that we probably need to point the user to info docs in the
manpage though.  GNU programs tend to have more complete and up to date
info documentation than manpages :-/

Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes:

> There is a description of "formats" in the GNU diff info documentation.
> You're right that we probably need to point the user to info docs in the
> manpage though.  GNU programs tend to have more complete and up to date
> info documentation than manpages :-/

Good idea; I should have thought of the info pages.  Most of the Linux
GNUish manuals have, close to the top, a very ugly comment about the
manual being obsolete trash and how you should be using info.  I'm sure
you'll show more tact.

(I actually prefer the info scheme to manual pages, but that's a PR I'll
never write. :)

Comment 3 Giorgos Keramidas 2002-07-11 22:11:30 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I've added a pointer to the info documentation to diff(1). 
I hope this makes it easier for users that wonder what =format is. 

Comment 4 Giorgos Keramidas 2002-07-11 22:11:30 UTC

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From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida