TOC for man

[Darrin Chandler]

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Replacing an outdated but serviceable utility shouldn't be done with a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.

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