Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

[Timothy Hospedales <timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu>]

        Could someone tell me how to read info pages / find out what info pages
are available? I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't seem to have
an info <topic> command - so does info use a different kind of syntax to man
or is it a special package or what?

Thanks!
Tim

> MallarJ@aol.com writes:
> 
>> I've no intention of starting a flame war - but the fact remains, if the man
>> pages are no longer being supported by developers, there's no sense
>> including
>> them in the man pages package.  It just adds to the confusion.
> 
> Not true.  If the manpage says "this manpage is out of date, see the info
> pages" then I've learned _exactly_ what I need to know from the manpage.
> If there's no manpage there then I'll just be confused and wondering why
> there's no documentation.
> 
> Later,
>       Dale

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E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Date: 22-Mar-99
Time: 15:06:56

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