[PLUG] Quick question on linux man page coverage

John Meissen john at meissen.org
Mon Jun 18 02:55:48 UTC 2018


Also, there may (or may not) be more extensive documentation under
 /usr/share/doc.

> I've run into a few instances where a program has no man page, but it does
> have an 'info' page. However I don't see it very often.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 7:00 PM, Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Tyrell Jentink <tyrell at jentink.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm occasionally surprised by man pages that say "This was written for
> > > Debian, as no man page existed..." Granted, I normally stumble on them in
> > > amateur radio contexts, and I blamed ham radio for being bad at
> > > documentation rather than Linux...
> > >




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