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No command line documentation found on read-the-docs.

Open daniel-birket opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

I have recently added yacas to the tldr database. See https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/pull/6263.

In the course of researching the yacas command-line parameters and switches, I failed to find any command line documentation in the new read-the-docs manual. I found what I needed on the old sourceforge site at http://yacas.sourceforge.net/introchapter2.html, but that is problematic to access if you don't know to look for it.

Please consider saving the old command line documentation while it remains. Implementing "yacas --help" would be great too. BTW, my homebrew install of yacas on MacOS lacks a man page. I see that there is a man folder here and a yacas.1.rst file, but this file does not cover the flags described in the sourceforge page, nor flags that work on my version, like --server.. I see other differences too, like -b and -i. I suspect my version is old. I have 1.9.1.

daniel-birket avatar Jul 26 '21 21:07 daniel-birket

You're unfortunately right with all of your observations. Even worse, some command line options changed in the mean time. I'll document it somewhere in getting started.

grzegorzmazur avatar Jul 27 '21 12:07 grzegorzmazur

I write. Just ask.

Daniel Birket

From: Grzegorz Mazur @.> Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 08:00 To: grzegorzmazur/yacas @.> Cc: Daniel Birket @.>, Author @.> Subject: Re: [grzegorzmazur/yacas] No command line documentation found on read-the-docs. (#336)

You're unfortunately right with all of your observations. Even worse, some command line options changed in the mean time. I'll document it somewhere in getting started.

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daniel-birket avatar Jul 28 '21 14:07 daniel-birket