On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> As many things as I like & admire about the FSF, their insistance on info
> rather than man bugs me. I find man much easier to use than info.
Ditto. And now that HTML has taken over the world, info(1) is more-or-less
completely obsolete. (The texinfo sources themselves convert to HTML easily
enough.) But RMS tends to be, shall we say, somewhat obstinate, so I suspect
we'll have that particular millstone tied to our necks for some time to come.
One thing *in particular* that really pisses me off about the FSF, info, and
man pages, is when you call up one of their man pages, and it begins with a
disclaimer that "manpages are obsolete" and to check the info pages instead.
So then I pull up info and get... the exact same manpage! Complete with the
same disclaimer! Thanks, guys.
> Although GNOME now has a document (just downloaded from helix-code),
> which is html-based.
One of the best reasons I can think of for installing GNOME (or maybe KDE,
too, haven't checked) is the web-browser-like interface to info. ;-)
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