question about man pages in Fedora 7

Gordon Keehn gordonkeehn at netzero.net
Wed Sep 19 15:26:51 UTC 2007


Martin Marques wrote:
> Phill escribió:
>> I've been using Fedora 7 on my desktop for a few
>> months now. Recently I noticed that several commands
>> no longer have man pages. Some of the commands in
>> question include "cdrecord, mkisofs". Is this by
>> design or just a mistake?
>
> cdrecord doesn't exist, it's a link to wodim (a fork of cdrecord).
>
> In the case of mkisofs, it's a link to genisofs.
>
> Try "man wodim" and "man genisofs"
>
    It's just me, but wouldn't it make sense, when a program like 
cdrecord or mkisofs is implemented as a link to another less well-known 
program, to include a link to the real program's man page as well?
    Cheers,
Gordon Keehn




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