On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 19:17 +0000, g wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Indeed. In fact I don't know if it's even documented anywhere. > > years back when using cromix, it was documented. but i do believe that like > a lot of other man pages, things have been downsized or eliminated and moved > into info. tho info is nothing but man pages made harder to search thru. > > > man-pages(7) describes the format of man pages, but doesn't say anything > > about "{}" that I can see (look under SYNPOSIS). > > as an example, sl5.4 does not have man-pages(7). :( > > where are you getting "{}". i do see "[]", in man pages, that is. Read the thread from the beginning. Anne hadn't understood that a synopsis line such as: rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options] means that exactly one of "-q" or "--query" is *required* (for this invocation of rpm of course). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines