Re: Online manual for luac

[Brett Nash <nash@...>]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:15:08 -0300
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> > I see the manuals for luac being published on the Lua website.
> > They even miraculously appear in Google cache somehow.
> > 
> > http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/luac.html
> > 
> > But I can't find links to them anywhere on Lua.org.
> > Is this intentional? Or am I missing something?
> 
> These were meant to be linked to in the manual page but somehow these
> links have disappeared over the years (and no one noticed till now).
> I wonder how Google still keeps them. Anyway, they're there. Also for
> the command-line interpreter:
> 	http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/lua.html
> 
> But does anyone actually use those man pages, even in nroff form
> as distributed in the tarball?

Yes, still useful to have in the tarball.  man <blah> is still the
first port of call for help with a program.

	Regards,
	nash