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Date:      Mon, 26 Jan 2004 03:21:51 +0000
From:      Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
To:        des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ), Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/fetch fetch.1
Message-ID:  <6.0.1.1.1.20040126031528.0449f970@imap.sfu.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200401251909.45346.wes@softweyr.com>
References:  <200401230450.i0N4omSZ049990@repoman.freebsd.org> <40123A86.3040102@aueb.gr> <xzp1xppt08v.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200401251909.45346.wes@softweyr.com>

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At 03:09 26/01/2004, Wes Peters wrote:
>Roger Wilco.  Is it OK to make a stronger recommendation that the user
>consult fetch(3) for some rather critical information about how fetch(1)
>really works?  As it stands, the fetch(1) page really requires reading of
>fetch(3) as well, which is fine as long as we lead the reader there with
>a rather blunt instrument.

   I'd like to add my voice to this request -- when I found fetch(1) doing
odd things a few months ago, it took me a long time to make the connection
to, and read, fetch(3).  (Maybe I'm just dense, but I suspect I'm no worse
than the average user...)

Colin Percival




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