TOC for man

[Eric "Shubes"]

Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:07:45PM -0700, Eric Shubes wrote:
>> 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 Replacing an outdated but serviceable utility shouldn't be done with a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!).
> 
> First, that's *my* take on info. Others will have their own opinion, and
> since you seem new to info perhaps you should reserve judgement until
> you're more familiar with it. ;)
> 
> Second, as your own experiences with qmail will show, you have the
> ability to spot missing or poor functionality and contributing something
> to the community. By all means, work something up! Really, it sounds
> like something I'd use, if it were general purpose enough.
> 

That's kinda what I was thinking. As it would only work with rpm-based
distros the way I'd write it, someone might even want to port it to debian. ;)

Thanks for everyone's input. If/when I come up with something, I'll be sure
to share it.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'