Talk:1343: Manuals

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Your line counts may vary for the man pages, depending on what distribution you are running and what version of man you're using (and god forbid, what version of wc). ‎108.162.221.51 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Mine comes in at 1806 lines. So even more unwieldy. (Ubuntu 13.10) 108.162.216.74 14:36, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

I seem to remember some info page starting with “how to read this manual”… can’t find it though. --108.162.254.162 10:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

I believe the implication is that the "how to read this manual" section is a manual for the manual. This could be characterized as an instance of recursion. 173.245.54.52 16:07, 17 March 2014 (UTC)