Re: man --> info?
>>>>> "Fabrizio" == Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> writes:
Fabrizio> info docs are "guides", while manpages are pages of the
Fabrizio> reference manual. Both type of docs are needed, as they
Fabrizio> serve different purposes, but only the reference is
Fabrizio> required. That attitude, to abhor reference manuals in
Fabrizio> favor of on-line guides, is like pretending to conversate
Fabrizio> only with persons with the same level of knowledge as you.
[...]
Fabrizio> Now they do not have an excuse any-more. FSF has added a
Fabrizio> info2man program that extract the manpage from the texinfo
Fabrizio> source!
Do I detect just a slight touch of contradiction here? Where does
info2man get the reference information for the manpage, if not from
the Info manual?
Indeed, every FSF-policy conforming Info manual has a section
"Invoking foo" which contains very nearly the same things as a typical
manpage does.
Of course, the FSF policy itself is an Info document
(standards.info). Maybe that is the real bug :-)
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