>
> On Sun Aug 20 2000 at 21:03, Chris Abbey wrote:
>
> > At 10:35 8/19/00 -0700, Joseph Malicki wrote:
> > >glibc is documented in info, not manpages. the manpages there are just
> > >an incomplete and in some cases inaccurate collection, werent they from
> > >libc5 or something? The wonders of GNU software.......
> >
> > then can we please get rid of the stupid man pages?
>
> Can we please get rid of the stupid info pages, and have a set of
> updated man pages to replace them?
>
Man pages are an obsolete way of providing inforamtion. They are not
designed with hyperlinking in mind and are unsuitable for long texts.
In addition they are based on groff and thus they are far inferior for
printing to the TeX based-info pages (the texinfo pages are in fact
TeX pages who are converted to info pages by the texinfo program).
Last but not least man pages are no longer mantained for most of the
fundamental Linuwx utilities or libraries including gcc and glibc.
It should be the opposite: let's move off the obsolete man pages: thay
were great in the seventies but today we have far more powerful
machines who allow far richer ways of provising information.
--
Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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