Subject: Re: Just my opinion
Date: Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:06:45PM -0500
In reply to:Brian Servis
Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> *- On 6 Jul, Ed Cogburn wrote about "Re: Just my opinion"
> > Ipswitch wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote:
> >>
> >> > > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong,
> >> >
> >> > You have a bit of a point there. Some of the HOWTOs are rather old and
> >> > inaccurate, mostly because they were written a few years ago and there've
> >> > been many advances since then. Most of the manpages on the other hand are
> >> > relatively up-to-date, and many of the more complicated packages even
> >> > come
> >> > with examples (look in /usr/doc/[packagename]).
> >>
> >> The GNU manpages are really bad. Most just tell you that you shouldn't use
> >> them - use info instead. Yuck!
> >
> >
> > Yes, I don't know why GNU chose to do this to the community. It
> > seems everyone at GNU uses (X)emacs, since emacs reads info stuff
> > but they never considered the rest of us who might prefer another
> > editor that doesn't support info. The stand alone info reader
> > they provide as an afterthought is truly horrible. However, there
> > is a replacement (finally!) called 'pinfo'. It has not reached
> > v1.0 yet, so it should still be considered 'beta', but it works
> > very well for me. It is colorized, allows the use of the arrow
> > keys in an intuitive way, and can show both info *and* man pages
> > (it checks for an info file first, if not found it will look for a
> > man page). The info-like node linking ability works on properly
> > written man pages too (hilighted references to other programs
> > become a link in pinfo).
> >
> >
>
> There is also info2www that works very well. Install dwww and info2www
> and you have a fairly basic documentation reading mechanism.
>
Thanks Brian! With those 2 and ncsa, a 45 second download, and tkinfo
is history. A much better solution to my problem!
Wayne
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