On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Tony Nugent wrote:
>Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:10:43 +1000
>From: Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: RedHat Development Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: basename()?
>
>On Sat Aug 19 2000 at 10:35, "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.......
>
>I **HATE** info, it is the most un-intuiative utility I've ever come
>across. Ok, I've never taken to emacs (strange methinks, especially
>after 9 years of using unix), so that's probably not suprising.
Agreed, however "info" is two things. Documentation, and a UI
interface into that documentation. The "info" text mode program
is a crappy interface which I hate as much as the next guy. It
is not however the only interface. I use KDE HELP to read info
mostly and it works like web pages. Thus the info is very
useful, just not the program itself.
>I wish there was a utility available (as standard issue) that turned
>info pages into (good) man pages. Or perhaps better still, a way to
>get man itself to do it...
Or just use KDE HELP, or one of the other programs that has a
non-braindead interface to texinfo documentation. I know of no
info2man processors but info2html apps certainly exist and are
VERY useful.
Do a search on freshmeat and see if anything is there.
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