Please enhance the Usability of the manual page documentation for ssh by mentioning https://www.openssh.com/legacy.html. This would have saved me time discovering how to interoperate with old implementations. The attached patch also cross-references the -G and -Q command-line options.
--- openssh-7.4p1/ssh.1.orig 2017-06-29 08:32:22.474728916 -0700 +++ openssh-7.4p1/ssh.1 2017-06-29 08:34:16.577814451 -0700 @@ -273,7 +273,8 @@ .Cm Host and .Cm Match -blocks and exit. +blocks and exit. Contrast with +.Cm -Q . .Pp .It Fl g Allows remote hosts to connect to local forwarded ports. @@ -583,6 +584,8 @@ Queries .Nm for the algorithms supported for the specified version 2. +(Contrast the option +.Cm -G .) The available features are: .Ar cipher (supported symmetric ciphers), @@ -1613,7 +1616,8 @@ .Xr tun 4 , .Xr ssh_config 5 , .Xr ssh-keysign 8 , -.Xr sshd 8 +.Xr sshd 8 , +https://www.openssh.com/legacy.html .Sh STANDARDS .Rs .%A S. Lehtinen
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