On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Tony Nugent 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?
>
>(Just wanted to "put my hand up for the opposition", since I'm no
>fan of info pages).
Is it truely the info pages you hate, or just the info user
interface program? I suspect the latter. I like what info is
TRYING to do - hyperlink documentation in a useful manner, but
the UI just plain sucks. HTML'ing it means I can choose my own
UI - Lynx/Netscape, etc..
The info documents are very useful. Try reading them with
midnight commander in the /usr/info dir, or with less or
something. You get a bunch of crap here and there, but don't
have to screw with the crappy info UI. ;o)
TTYL
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