[16702] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.2.17: mtools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Fri Feb 12 18:27:45 1999
To: jered@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, mbarker@MIT.EDU, aurora@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [16698]
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:27:40 EST
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
Sorry, Jered -- left you off the first time round.
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:22:59 EST
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, aurora@MIT.EDU, ajfox@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: sun4 8.2.17: mtools
I gather that the man pages have always been a somewhat hairy issue.
The mtools page documents general flags such as -r which the pages for
individual commands like mcopy don't, but it's long and unwieldy and
probably overlooked in general. We're working on installing a newer
version of mtools which should include more up-to-date man pages, but
I think they're organized in the same fashion.
mbackup is the perl script bdrosen wrote some time back to copy an
entire directory tree. I've been poking around with it when I have
spare time to fix a few problems and to provide more documentation (in
the form of "mbackup -help") but haven't moved any changes over yet.
If Heather wants to work on man pages, I can throw some content her
way (just holler)...
- --Abby
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