Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/28/03:57:05
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> > Bash doesn't have Info docs, only a man page (a very long one, btw).
>
> It does, though; I have them on my Linux box. (Investigating further)
> At least Bash 2.0 had the file `doc/bashref.{texi,info}' in the FSF
> source dist.
DJGPP's port is version 1.14.7.
> It's a little tricky to
> navigate though; the features of the shell are arranged into sections by
> *origin*
Use `i', as usual. The order is only important if you read the entire
manual, or large portions thereof.
> (features that came from traditional Bourne shell, features
> from csh, features that GNU invented, etc). This is troublesome for
> anybody who hasn't used Unix for years and could know about all those.
It might be a good idea to point this out to the GNU maintainer. Both
DJGPP and Cygwin32 have Bash ports, so the assumption of a
Unix-entrenched user is no longer valid.
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