On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:48:08PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2003-02-24 18:39, Sam Izzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Most of the GNU tools are better documented in the info pages, as > > > they consider man pages legacy. info ld might turn up more > > > detailed info. > > > > You know, I've read/heard that many times over the years, but > > whenever I look at the info page for whatever tool I'm after, it's > > exactly the same as the man page (in the ld case too). > > That's not always true. I personally committed the change in the > manual page of sdiff(1) both to -current and -stable, to make sure > that the incomplete, lacking manpage has minimal changes from the > vendor version but *does* point to the texinfo docs of diff/sdiff > which are more complete than the manpage. > > GNU people do hate manpages annd avoid them some times :( > Yes, the most aberrant product of GNU is "info". Praise be to info2html, which at least makes them usable. Navigating info pages is like having teeth pulled without novocaine. Long live manual pages..keep us Unix oldies happy :)
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