On 9/24/23 01:37, James Feeney via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote:
> Sorry, that was probably a bit harsh.

No, people used to regularly boggle at why info still exists:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gnu/comments/240mle/why_does_gnu_cling_to_info/

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77514/what-is-gnu-info-for

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159859/why-didnt-gnu-info-succeed-man

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/27dxrr/does_anybody_use_gnu_info/

These days, info seems so dead nobody talks about it at all anymore.

Here's a patch I used to apply to binutils 11 years ago:

https://github.com/landley/aboriginal/blob/master/sources/patches/binutils-screwinfo.patch

Rob

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