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Re: Generation process for cpp.1

To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: Generation process for cpp.1
From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:11:07 -0800
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011101616490.27785-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> <orlmurhc3a.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:16:25PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2000, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > The manpage cpp.1 is created from cpp.texi using contrib/texi2pod.pl plus
> > pod2man and hand adjustments
> 
> Maybe we should use help2man instead, so that the man-page contains
> just the list of available options and points to the manual for more
> information?

help2man should be used only if no other alternative exists, IMO.  Its
output provides less information than a proper man page should have,
and is condescending to boot.

zw

References:
- Generation process for cpp.1
  - From: Joseph S. Myers
- Re: Generation process for cpp.1
  - From: Alexandre Oliva

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