On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:01:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
That's fine; but info is NOT the way to go. It's an awkward, sadly outdated
interface.
There is STILL a need for manpage-style documentation. Man pages are
intended to be brief, concise developer or user notes. You shouldn't
get theory of design, discussion of performance tradeoffs, etc. in a
man page; there should be a full document behind man page sets that
provides that kind of information.
I don't want to wade through reams of material I no longer need once I've
learned a package or system; I want brief usage reminders (without bloating
my software.) And I want an intuitive interface; info sux at that.
Cheers,
--
Dave Ihnat
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