I too would like to know though I can venture a guess or two. The menu/link
structure is of benefit if you know what you are looking for. This menu driven
structure provides the quick path to a topic and allows the searching of the
entire document for pattern matching like less.
The trouble in my mind is that there a lot of people who have never used emacs and
I don't know any other tool that provides mouse support for traversing a link in
info fules. I came from the windows world and emacs is pretty intimidating. I
suspect that this is true for a lot of linux converts today.
Bret
Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why is this trend, to not use man pages anymore, growing stronger?
>
> Or at least, more and more apps produces limited man pages that
> initially claims to be out of date and incomplete. Why info pages?
> What's wrong with man?
>
> Best regards
> Gustav
>
> Vidiot wrote:
> >
> > >On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Martin A. Marques wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Is there a version of GetRight for Linux? It's one of the few truly
> > >> > great Apps for Windows that I would like to see in Linux that I thought
> > >> > was still Windows only. I mean, I know you can use wu_ftp, etc., but
> > >> > GetRight just works so darn well...
> > >>
> > >> getright suxs alot. wget is what I use. If you want something more
> > >> grafical, try caitoo (all this aplications can be found in freshmeat or
> > >> linuxberg).
> > >
> > >Thats odd, I so man wget and I get a man page.. I can send it to you if
> > >you would like.. Not sure if its the same version but at least its
> > >something...
> > >Jeff
> >
> > It would be out-of-date, as the latest version of wget doesn't have a man
> > page.
> >
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