Re: manpage for GNU utilities?
Hi,
>>"Chris" == Chris Lawrence <quango@ix.netcom.com> writes:
Chris> On Feb 21, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>> IMO, this is a policy violation. Especially, in the case of
>> sort(1), where the info page is much more up-to-date than the
>> manpage.
Chris> I'm with you on this... a man page is a lot more useful for
Chris> general usage than an Info page (I use man all of the time,
Chris> while I only reluctantly pull up Info).
This is an opinion. I tend to disagree.
Chris> IMHO, people should be shipping complete man pages; as a
Chris> compromise, I'd be willing to read HTML pages (where you have a
Chris> decent choice of viewers) instead of Info pages (lynx is a lot
Chris> lighter-weight than emacs for reference purposes).
Who needs to pull up emacs to read info pages? there is a
stand alone info, which is faster than lynx, and has way
better search capabilities than either lynx or "less".
I understand people who say outdated man pages are bad, but
lack of knowledge of the tools available is no justification in a
policy debate.
manoj
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