begin  quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:06:21PM -0800:
[snip]
> I love man pages, when I can remember which manpage I need.  I hate  
> info, even if I know which info set I need.

<aol/>

> I hate people that make man pages that say to use info, because "man"  
> is deprecated.  That makes me want to do unpleasant things to RMS.
 
...and his synchophants. Sorry, I mean mignons.

> If you're not sure about what manpage you need, 'apropos' or  
> 'whatis' (which both do the same thing.)

I started playing with troff a while back with the intention of coming
to grips with the manpage structure.  Naturally, I got distracted and
haven't gotten back to that project.
  
> 'man apropos' or 'man whatis' for more details.

-Stewart "man -k" Stremler


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