|> On 9 Aug 1999, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|>
|> > "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> writes:
|> >
|> > |> To take the discussion one step further, one of my own personal pet
|> > |> peeves is out of date/incorrect/inconsistent/missing man pages. Lots of
|> > |> people (myself included) habitually rely on man pages as THE RTFM
|> > |> mechanism. It is infinitely annoying to read, e.g., the crypt() man
|> > |> page and to see no reference to the fact that crypt, via libc6/glibc and
|> > |> even some versions of libc5, now supports MD5 transparently or any
|> > |> instructions on how to make that happen. Sure, it is in info libc,
|> > |> three layers deep, as a crypt crossreference. info crypt, on the other
|> > |> hand, returns the (obviously now obsolete) man page.
|> >
|> > The latest libc docs have an entry for crypt. If the manual is installed
|> > properly then "info crypt" will get you here.
|>
|> Then manifestly it is installed incorrectly, as "info crypt" (in my
|> near-virgin RH 6.0 system) just shows the (incorrect) man page.
When installing the glibc manual a bunch of links are added to the dir
file by running install-info on a generated file. This also adds the
crypt link.
Andreas.
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