%% Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
myh I'll take a single document that I can search and eyeball-scan
myh over multiple linked documents almost always. Example: the
myh fetchmail man page. Yes, it's farking huge, but I can find what
myh I need by searching on a key term.
Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'll take a single document that I can search and eyeball-scan over
multiple linked documents almost always. Example: the fetchmail man
page. Yes, it's farking huge, but I can find what I need by searching
on a key term.
Just as a point of
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:52:25PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
I see your point ... but ugh.
I'll take a single document that I can search and eyeball-scan over
multiple linked documents almost always. Example: the fetchmail man
page. Yes, it's farking huge, but I can find what I need
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:29:40PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
Or you can cat all the various info files into one big one:
zcat /usr/share/info/gcc* ./gcc.info
and then you can just search through gcc.info with whatever
text tool you like.
Oops, that was overkill, Alan Shutko pointed out
On 2004-02-12 12:29:40 -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
You can either get the html version of the documentation (texinfo
can be converted to html).
[...]
but invalid HTML...
--
Vincent Lefèvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Web: http://www.vinc17.org/ - 100%
validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig
At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go
with info pages instead of man pages?
I googled several times with different search terms, but didn't find
much; this was probably the best hit I found:
http://users.netwit.net.au/~pursang/dtil/howto_9.html
and it
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 13:10:51 -0600, Kent West wrote:
At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go
with info pages instead of man pages?
Some of the other hits seemed to imply that man pages were better,
although there was no definitive explanation as to why (or
on Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:10:51PM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go
with info pages instead of man pages?
I googled several times with different search terms, but didn't find
much; this was probably the best
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:10:51PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go
with info pages instead of man pages?
They feel that man pages make poor user manuals. And they don't want
to have redundant information (a man page as a reference
On 2004-02-11, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) penned:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 13:10:51 -0600, Kent West wrote:
At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to
go with info pages instead of man pages?
Some of the other hits seemed to imply that man pages were better,
although there
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote :
» Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:52:25 -0700
» From: Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
» To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
» Subject: Re: Info vs Man
» Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:12:17 -0600 (CST)
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