9 Apr
2008
9 Apr
'08
9:19 a.m.
Richard wrote:
The worst part is when they intentionally cripple the
man page and
force you into the awful info system.
Aha, the old "The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info
documents instead". Bastards. :-)
My preference order goes something like: man page, book, online docs, other
online resources (Google search, usenet etc.), utility's built-in help, 'info'
documentation.
How old is 'info' anyway - does it pre-date widespread (whatever that may
mean!) web use? I don't think I had cause to come across it until mid/late 90s
(man pages were pretty well maintained until about then), by which time the
web was well established. I'm not sure if info is a poor imitation of a bunch
of HTML pages, or merely a poor implementation of a more general hypertext
system (which had of course been around for many years previous)
cheers
Jules (skirting the bounds of off-topicness a little... sorry)