Hi Chris, Chris Bennett wrote on Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 08:23:22PM -0400:
> Thanks, that was helpful. > I did not think of using info cvs. I do use info at times, > just not that often. That is quite understandable. With BSD systems in general, it is both the normal case and also our goal that the man(1) pages should contain the authoritative, complete, correct, concise documentation. But the further you move away from OpenBSD to other operating systems or into ports land, the more documentation gets scattered across various non-compatible file formats. But even in OpenBSD base, there are a few legacy components still in active use where we don't really continue development and where the authoritative documentation is not in manual page format, for example: - GNU as(1) - GNU cvs(1) - gdb(1) - GNU info(1) itself - and a few others With LLVM and related tools replacing GCC and GNU binutils on many platforms, the amount and the importance of info(1) documents is slowly continuing to decline. Yours, Ingo
