At 11:29 PM 05/21/2000 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
nobody said, it that there must be so many places for
documentation - it simply has "grown" historically into this situation.
and even that is not that bad. man, info and /usr/doc are the main sources
- it could be *much* worse. possibly the initial /etc/motd should
say (well, not literally ;-):
"have a look at /usr/man, /usr/info and /usr/doc to get started. [...]"
-- Yes. But if/as we try to make linux more useable, such anachronisms
should be smoothed out. E.g. it would be nice to have dynamic www pages,
which give access to conversions of all available documentation on a
system, looking in all the relevant places to index it.
This would merge the various sources, and provide a single consistent
browsing /access tool, instead on (info, man, zcat).
Gregory
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Computer Science Department
College of Science and Technology
Maharishi University of Management
(Maharishi International University 1971-1995)
http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept
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