Subject: What's the not documented man page name?

From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:51:29 +0200

Hello,

Someone volunteered to write a manual page for programs and tools that
does not have a manual page. I'd like to know the name of this man page
and I'd like to see installed by default on Debian systems (as an essential
package in base). Basically, I think we could have

    man1/notdocumented.1
    man2/notdocumented.2

etc... (undocumented is a bad name because there is an undocumented(2)).

Then I will be able to make a gettext package that will have *.1 defined
containing

	.so man1/notdocumented.1

This would be nice...

Yves.

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From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 18:19:20 +0200

[email-masked] writes:
 > the gettext package (version 0.10.16) is available at this moment, 
 > I uploaded it today, so you might take a look at that first.

I saw that. Don't worry...

 > > 	.so man1/notdocumented.1
 > > 
 > > This would be nice...
 > Perhaps it is nice, but I don't see what you want to establish with this.
 > Can you explain this?

Because when one does `man gettext' man answers that there's no manual
page for it. And if gettext.1 sourced (or was linked to) the notdocumented
man page, the user will have hints about what to try next (info, for
instance).

Yves.

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From: [email-masked] (Martin Schulze)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 96 00:28 MET DST

You write:

[email-masked] writes:
} > > Then I will be able to make a gettext package that will have *.1 defined
} > > containing
} > the gettext package (version 0.10.16) is available at this moment, 
} > I uploaded it today, so you might take a look at that first.

} > > 	.so man1/notdocumented.1

.so man7/undocumented.7

Gruesse,

	Joey
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