Derek Martin wrote:
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> > > Man pages are much clearer ...
> >
> > LOL. I've read some pretty bad manpages in my time. And I ain't that
> > old. :-)
>
> O.k., let me precisely restate that which I thought was obvious, being:
> "In my opinion, Non-GNU, Non-Solaris pre-2.7 man pages are GENERALLY more
> clear than the organization of the vast majority of GNU texinfo documents,
> in my experience."
>
> Better?
>
Or, in simpler terms, i'd prefer to get whacked in the head than use
texinfo ;).
Seriously, I've never gotten the info browser to work right, allowing
me to navigate decently, I hate the fact that if I ask for info on a
command that doesn't have info, it dumps me into the top level, so I
have to quit out, instead of just failing and leaving me at the
command prompt, it takes forever to navigate to the useful information
in their trees, rather than giving me quickly a synopsis, I've never
figured out (at least from trying to use "info info" how to do the
equivilent of "apropos," etc. I suppose as a tutorial it may be ok
(although superseded by html now), but I've yet to see anything that
beats man pages for quick & dirty summaries of each command, including
all options, bugs, examples (ok, not always), etc. Give me my man
pages!
--
jeff smith
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