On Feb 17 08:58:04, mbian...@foveal.com wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 07:55:31PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > I *hate* info. It has made Linux less available to a lot of people.
>
> BUT info sometimes has information that man(1) lacks.
AFAIK, it is quite usual in GNU to maintain a texinfo documentation,
to not maintain a manpage, and to publish both. For example:
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for gmake is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and gmake programs are properly installed
at your site, the command info 'GNU make' should give you access
to the complete manual.
The format has nothing to do with it:
this is hardly an advantage on info as such over man as such.
Personaly, I find the practice of maintaining one copy,
leaving one copy behind, and publishing both quite dubious.
I read the above paragraph as
If you have read this manpage in the hope that it will give you
the full detail of what this utility does, as you might have
expected form a UNIX manpage, you have just wasted your time.
This is not the real thing; you have to go read this other thing.
That _is_ the real thing, promise.
Jan
