Re: FAQ bug

[Christoph Plattner]

One question concerning DOCU:

I am NOT the expert on that question !
But can the TeX system not also produce MAN pages as other 
formats like info, ps, html ?
So it should be easy then, to have a MAN page additional
for at least <prefix>/sbin/grub.

But again, I am NOT an expert on that stuff.

Bye
Christoph P.



"Yoshinori K. Okuji" wrote:
> 
> At Sat, 9 Feb 2002 08:22:36 GMT,
> address@hidden wrote:
> > Finding such stuff is a pain - why is there never a good man page
> > with a GNU program?
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_33.html#SEC33
> 
> > Maybe the authors of grub would like the world to be different,
> > perhaps that would have been more convenient to grub, but reality
> > is that the partition type does not indicate the filesystem.
> > Not only does that fail for Hurd, it fails all over the place.
> > For example, 0x83 is Linux (xiafs or ext2 or ext3 or reiserfs or ...).
> 
> IMHO, what wants to make the world different is Linux. Partition types
> have been used as the FAQ entry says historically. Note that there is
> no reliable specification on how to use partition types (besides the
> "empty" type and those for extended partitions), so it just mentions
> the historical usage (and Linux doesn't follow the ambiguous rule).
> 
> BTW, why that fails for Hurd? Be more specific, please.
> 
> > So, anything that assumes a connection between partition type
> > and filesystem type is a bug, and in particular this FAQ entry
> > is a bug.
> 
> Then, tell us where to see the specification.
> 
> Okuji
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