On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, John Summerfield 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?
>>
>
>I side with those who find the man pages much easier to use.
I agree.
>Info is the least usable online document browser I've seen bar none in 30
>years of computing. If there's a worse one, I really couldn't bear to hear of
>it.
Also agreed. ;o)
>man isn't wonderful, but I've not found any advantages to info.
I understand the advantage of hyperlinking, but the UI has to
make it easy or the benefit is lost.
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