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Re: Manual reference to frobnicate in jargon file?


On 02/13/2013 06:16 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> AFAICT nss.texi was added by Ulrich on 1996-08-15, which is shortly after I
> handed over responsibility.  I have no recollection of knowing this chapter
> existed before now.  The reference to frobnicate in that sentence does not
> make any particular sense to me.
> 
> As to the technical issue of a broken link, it was previously the case that
> there was a version of the jargon file maintained in Texinfo and so a full
> installation of GNU everything would have had a jargon.info so that the
> xref worked.

Ah! Awesome, your historical perspective makes this clear.

I'll clean it up.

Cheers,
Carlos.
 


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