Re: man v. info
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 05:00:36PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
> As to what to do about it, I can only suggest
> "reinstate the man pages in full". I know it's
> not 'kosher' to disagreee with the GNU "info
> policy", but I think that those who do disagree
> should say so. After all, it'a a Free and Open
> World, isn't it?
I despise "info". Use man as a base, and anything more elaborate that
actually *requires* hyperlinking, use HTML.
BTW, for HTML docs, put them all in *one* file with hyperlinks. There is no
meaningful advantage to cutting it into twenty pieces, and it makes
searching significantly more difficult.
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Carl Fink carlf@dm.net
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