8 Apr
2008
8 Apr
'08
5:36 p.m.
> Am I the only person in the world that likes man
pages then? [...]
>
> Just give me a nice plain flat page and let me do the searching
> myself. That's what the '/' key is for.
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, der Mouse wrote:
You are not alone. I have very similar tastes in
documentation. (I
agree with you about info; I find it more useful to use less on the
texinfo source, or even the underlying info file itself, than to try
to get anything useful out of info.)
I've never had much luck for using info, either, or like it. I think
that the main problem with info is its relation to emacs. :)
OTOH, I'm much happier with GNU tar and it's general compatibility with
reading tar files that I throw with it, and a few smart things it does
(like stripping off leading /'s), as compared to any other tar variant
that ships with a UNIX.
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Quick, who can recite from memory all of the switches
and their
meanings for GNU tar? I can't.
So? I can remember all of the switches that I normally use. If I need
something else, it's quite easy to type "man tar".
Who can understand the tar man pages?
Huh? I don't see how it's complex or hard to understand.
Who knows it to be accurate for the particular
incarnation of
tar that they're using?
If tar doesn't accept the options that the man page specifies when you
try to use them, then it's not compatible. If it does, than it is. :)
I've never actually run into any system that I can remember where
there's a man page for tar, but it isn't up-to-date enough to be
perfectly usable.
Pat
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