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 [[[↓][→]]] ``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
