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Re: errors in packaging packages



osd1000@tacitus.greenend.org.uk (Owen S. Dunn)  wrote on 20.12.96 in <[🔎] m0vb6sv-000LG8C@tacitus.greenend.org.uk>:

> Well, it's GNU hello, and GNU don't believe in man pages these
> days... (Myself I think there's a need for both info and man pages;
> info lends itself well to tutorials and the like, whereas man pages
> tend to be better for quick reference.)

Maybe for people that like Emacs. Info has the same significantly less- 
than-intuitive user interface, so at least for me, man pages work far  
better as tutorials ... fighting with the interface *does* tend to  
distract from the text.


MfG Kai


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