Re: man or info?
cjwatson@debian.org (Colin Watson) writes:
> To summarize somewhat, perhaps unfairly, the GNU Project seems to
> believe that providing a complete detailed manual is always preferable
> to providing a reference card; the Debian Project observes that not all
> upstream authors have the time or inclination for a complete manual and,
> all other things being equal, prefers to have some reasonable
> documentation for most things than excellent documentation for a few and
> poor documentation for most.
>
> Man pages are things that both authors and readers can pick up quickly.
> I'm in the habit of using info for a very few GNU packages (make,
> autoconf, and the libc being prime examples), but given the choice I
> still prefer a quick 'man foo'.
Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are
much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help.
Paul
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