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Re: (Getting rid of) man pages

To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
Subject: Re: (Getting rid of) man pages
From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>
Date: 22 Apr 1999 13:34:46 -0300
Cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9904221816480.28005-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

On Apr 22, 1999, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> I therefore propose to remove those man pages, at least those that are
> obsolete and virtually unmaintained, from the distribution, and solely
> refer to the info and HTML docs.

There's a help2man script somewhere on the net that we could use to
automatically generate the man pages from the output of gcc --help
[--verbose], for example.

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