In a message dated: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:14:20 EST
Tom Buskey said:
It would really be nice to have a single source for the docs. You used
to be able to do man -k to help search.
The problem is that various groups decided there's something wrong with
man pages. GNU went with texinfo, Perl
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From: Derek Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 2:26 PM
To: GNHLUG mailing list
Subject: Re: man pages
commercial equivalents. However, the sad fact is that certain
projects have decided that there are better ways to do
Just FYI, dealing with info can be made less painful
(in some circumstances) because info changes its
behavior when it detects that its output isn't a tty.
So if you don't want to mess around navigating info's
hierarchy you can just pipe it to less (or even to
a file) and then deal with it on
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Derek Martin wrote:
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=On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:45:12PM -0500, Scott Prive wrote:
= The lack of decent man pages on Linux is the one thing I hate about
= the environment the most (I like Linux, I just
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Derek Martin wrote:
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=On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:48:53PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
= =You have the GNU project to thank for that... Their standard
= =documentation methodology is GNU texinfo, which in
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Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the whole, at least back then, you'd have been much better off just
writing the man pages from scratch. Which actually was what I was
going to do. But I
