mirror of https://github.com/mkerrisk/man-pages
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to man-pages. However, since that time, those pages have not seen much maintenance, and are not in fact distributed in most distributions. Instead most distributions supply the coreutils versions of these pages, which are currently maintained. In addition, man-pages provides the 1p pages, which document the portable subset of functionality of these commands. Since the man1 pages are mostly unneeded, and out of date, I'm removing them. |
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README
In his wisdom RMS decided that people need no man pages when they can use GNU's beautiful info system. Unfortunately, everybody I know greatly prefers man pages. Since GNU actively non-maintains man pages, and inserts text to the effect that you should not be reading them in each man page that they already have, it seems that outside maintenance of man pages for the GNU utilities is required. The fileutils-3.16 man pages found here have been derived from those in fileutils-3.16-man-0.4.tar.gz (as produced by Ragnar Hojland Espinosa and A. Wik, and found on ftp://mail1.bet1.puv.fi/incoming/) by adding information on what POSIX says about these utilities. This is very useful if you have to write scripts that should be portable. There is also a time.1 man page here, inspired by kromJx@crosswinds.net. Andries