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bug in emacs help?

#98946
From: dyck
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 22:32
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Using GNU Emacs 18.55.

% gemacs -q
C-h C-h C-h
The screen shows:
-----------
o control of other variables)
when it would not result in changing the owner or group of the file;
that is, for files which are owned by you and whose group matches
the default for a new file created there by you.
This variable is relevant only if  backup-by-copying  is nil.
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which is incomplete and unhelpful.

Similarly:

% gemacs -q
C-h a file RET
The help window begins:
-----------
add-name-to-file
  Function: ed file.
append-to-file
  Function: rom a program, takes three arguments, START, END and ARG.
byte-compile-file
  Function: d, in a separate process asynchronously
copy-file
  Function: of data inserted.
delete-file
  Function: f non-nil means
-----------
Note that the descriptions are incomplete.

I suspect that this isn't actually a bug, there's just something wrong
with how our Emacs is installed. Can anyone tell what's wrong? Thanks.

Michael Dyck
Centre for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
dyck@cs.sfu.ca
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