On Friday 25 of March 2011 16:10:28 pmarin wrote:
> My theory is that GNU tools were so bloated by design that they
> realized that they  couldn't write a decent man page for their tools
> so they invented the  info pages and the --help flag.

coil!dexen!~ $ 9 man rc | wc -l
496
coil!dexen!~ $ man bash | wc -l
5351
coil!dexen!~ $ zcat /usr/info/bash.info.gz  | wc -l
10348


coil!dexen!~ $ 9 man mk | wc -l
416
coil!dexen!~ $ zcat /usr/info/make.info* | wc -l
12306

-- 
dexen deVries

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``In other news, STFU and hack.''
mahmud, in response to Erann Gat's ``How I lost my faith in Lisp''
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2308816

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