Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:22:44AM -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
>> Try "Info". Info is the replacement that GNU created for man. Unfortunately it never really caught on, but most of the core system tools and quite a bit of other things are in the Info index.
>>
>
> I'd say "Info is the unfortunate replacement that GNU created for man."
> Replacing an outdated but serviceable utility shouldn't be done with a
> half-baked idea and poor implementation choices.
>
> But all my distaste aside, for some things full documentation is only
> available in info, with summaries or stubs in the man pages. The man
> pages will refer (and defer) to the info pages in that case. At least
> that's what I've seen lately. Years ago people were doing info stuff
> with no man page at all, and many people (like me) thought there just
> wasn't any doc.
>
Darrin,
You're leaning me toward writing that script.
Thanks (I think!).
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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