From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Mar 29 8:50:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E34E37B420 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:50:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2TGo7n74370; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:50:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:50:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203291650.g2TGo7n74370@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: docs/36464: diff(1) manual doesn't explain "=format". Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/36464; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/36464: diff(1) manual doesn't explain "=format". Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:24:28 +0200 (EET) 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message