[erlang-questions] HTML Docs vs. Man Pages

[Kenneth Lundin]

Hi,

The man pages in "man" format and the corresponding html format are
built from the same source so they should contain exactly the same
information.
If not, there is a bug in our SW that produces the 2 formats, please
report such cases if you find any.

/Kenneth Erlang/OTP team at Ericsson

On 7/11/07, Matthias Lang <matthias@REDACTED> wrote:
> Kirill Zaborski writes:
>  > Does not http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/ has the same info as the man pages?
>
> I'm not aware of any difference in content.
>
> In the specific case of the 'app' manpage, both the HTML and the
> manpage version refer to config(4).
>
> (This is contrary to what Bob Cowdery wrote below. Wild guess: Bob
> missed the reference because he only looked in the "See Also"
> section. The reference is actually in the body, both in the man and
> HTML version, at least on the copies on my machine, which I got from
> erlang.org)
>
> Matthias
>
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>
>  > Regards,
>  > Kirill.
>  >
>  > On 7/11/07, David Mercer <dmercer@REDACTED> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Jan Henry Nystrom wrote:
>  > > > If you had looked a bit closer in app(4) you would have found that the
>  > > > next man page to look in is config(4) which states the intent an format
>  > > > of the the_name_of_your_config_file.config. All the information you need
>  > > > can be found in that man page.
>  > >
>  > > Bob Cowdery wrote:
>  > > > That will teach me to use the man pages and not the html docs which
>  > > don't
>  > > > seem to have any reference to config(4).
>  > >
>  > > Is there a way to read the man pages for those of us on Windows?  I
>  > > assumed
>  > > the HTML documents had the same information as the man pages...
>  > >
>  > > Cheers,
>  > >
>  > > David
>  > >
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>  > Does not <a href="http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/">http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/</a> has the same info as the man pages?<br><br>Regards,<br>Kirill.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
>  > David Mercer</b> <<a href="mailto:dmercer@REDACTED">dmercer@REDACTED</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>  > Jan Henry Nystrom wrote:<br>> If you had looked a bit closer in app(4) you would have found that the<br>> next man page to look in is config(4) which states the intent an format<br>> of the the_name_of_your_config_file.config. All the information you need
>  > <br>> can be found in that man page.<br><br>Bob Cowdery wrote:<br>> That will teach me to use the man pages and not the html docs which don't<br>> seem to have any reference to config(4).<br><br>Is there a way to read the man pages for those of us on Windows?  I assumed
>  > <br>the HTML documents had the same information as the man pages...<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>David<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@REDACTED">
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