Hello David A. Bandel!
On Sat, 22 April 2000 at 07:26:46, you wrote:
> The man page is just a little too sparse and points to INFO.
That is the correct way if there is a man page at all in addition
to the Info documentation.
> I don't know who the emacs-using moron is that invented info then
> decided to ram it down everyone's throat, but I've spent many days
> trying in vain to read the info pages.
Info probably has been quite cool at the time of it's introduction
and still offers some unique bells and whistles. Emacs is cool as
well and if you don't want to learn the key bindings you don't
have to - just use the X interface, select with the mouse from
the menue the items "Help -> Manuals -> Browse Manuals with Info"
and use the mouse as well to navigate the info pages. No keyboard
needed.
> Please publish either decent man page, a decent html page, a decent
> postscript page, or some documentation (sgml would be great) other than
> this abomination call info that I cannot figure out.
Man pages are worse IMHO, HTML likewise since paged media is not
exactly what HTML is good for. SGML is not the GNU Standard and
- well - if you really were interested in PostScript you would
have noticed that one can easily produce wonderful PostScript
from the TeXinfo sources. I did just that and it worked like it
did for ages - with the notable exception of german umlauts I
was tinkering with afterwards (one of the low points that even
people involved with info freely admit).
> The SOB who came up with info needs to be strung up by the
> family jewels and left to rot.
That's cruel and against the law. May I suggest that you write
some nice replacement for info instead of committing murder?
> Please publish some decent, usable GRUB documentation or
> tell me where I can find it (other than info - which I
> can't for days of trying figure the fsck'ing POS out).
What about offering PostScript as an optional documentation
package or something like that? At least people working on
another bootloader used to offer PostScript as far as I can
remember and it is a good idea to print out the documentation
anyway since one may have trouble getting to info if one
tries to get the GRUB configuration right.
> A way to translate grub.info*.gz into something
> usable would also be appreciated.
PostScript generation is not a big deal - really.
> Frustrated beyond belief with info and its horrible key bindings,
So why don't you generate PostScript, feed it to your laser
and stop worrying about key bindings?
/bye
Dirk
