Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
Severity: minor

The dd manpage is rather spartan and does not list possible
values for the "conv=" argument.

It does, however, state that the info page might be more
useful. Indeed it is. I mistakenly tried "info dd" rather
than "info coreutils dd", and was confused to be facing the
infopage for "ddd" -- but that's probably not a bug.

Maybe the accepted values to the conv argument should be
included in the manpage (licence permitting: I have to look
at the GFDL-status of the info-page, I suppose).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-jmtd
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                     2.2.23-1     Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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