Jon Dowland wrote: > The dd manpage is rather spartan and does not list possible > values for the "conv=" argument.
It is a tradeoff. If the --help and man pages get too long other people complain that the output scrolls off of the page. (I wish I had a bug number handy to reference.) The list of conversions is rather long. > 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. Well known issue. Please see these reports for more information: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139569 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=180127 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=235517 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=262596 > Maybe the accepted values to the conv argument should be > included in the manpage The coreutils info pages are automatically generated from the --help output of the command using help2man. In this way as long as the program source code is up to date then --help documentation and man documentation will be in sync. Therefore generally the way to improve man pages is to improve the --help output. But should the long list of conversions really appear there? Alternatively help2man can include additional prose into the man page. Just adding information... I don't really have an opinion. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
