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First of all, this manual is incomplete. The stty section, in
particular, needs substantial reorganization and additional explanatory
text before it will be up to the standard of other GNU manuals.
Explanatory text in general is lacking; the manual presently assumes you
pretty much know what to do, and just need to be reminded of how. Thus,
if you are interested, please get involved in improving this manual.
The entire GNU community will benefit.
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Please report bugs to `bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu'. Remember to include the version number, machine architecture, input files, and any other information needed to reproduce the bug. See section `Bugs' in GNU CC.
This manual is based on the Unix man pages in the distribution, which were originally written by David MacKenzie and updated by Jim Meyering. Pinard did the initial conversion to Texinfo format. Karl Berry did the indexing, some reorganization, and editing of the results. Richard Stallman contributed his usual invaluable insights to the overall process.