Re: man vs info
> Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk> writes:
> > On 14.03.07 08:35, Mike McClain wrote:
> > > In man pages written by the FSF I see this advisory:
> > >
> > > SEE ALSO
> > > The full documentation for sync is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
> > > the info and sync programs are properly installed at your site, the
> > > command
> > > info coreutils sync
> >
> > (
> >
> > Which sucks, because it's likely to be section/node "sync invocation" in
> > coreutils info doc. However I don't like "info" viewer and even if pinfo is
> > nice alternative, it does not support its syntax in format of
> > "pinfo document start_of_section_string", you must use
> > "pinfo coreutils --node "sync invocation" instead.
> >
> > So, documents which refer to "info" completely ignores the fact that users
> > may use alternative to info, which does not support its command line syntax.
> > I haven't asked FSF about this yet, not filled a bugreport to all of their
> > packages...
> > )
On 15.03.07 09:19, Carl Johnson wrote:
> You should look at the dhelp and dwww packages and see if you like
> either of them (I prefer dwww). They both provide browser access to
> the man pages, info files, and the /usr/share/doc/* documentation.
I know them and I don't like them. I'm just telling that "info" program and
references to it from FSF info pages suck.
Actually, I prefer good old man, although html is more useable in some
cases.
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