Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Duh, I should have known that GNU people abhor man pages. Sorry for > > that ... > > Oh, it's not exactly about personal attitude toward manpages, but > rather about the fact that manpage format (in our opinion) does not > suit well for writing a *manual*. It may be good for a reference, > perhaps, but not for the manual.
I have no problem is there is a documentation in a better format, but from my impression, the man page format is still better readable than the documentation provided with typical GNU programs. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
