Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:23:26PM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 08:58:55AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > My intention was to focus on two aspects of man pages in general:
> > 1. they can use improvement
>
> Always. Definitely. Sometimes a tall order: those coming from the
> Linux man-pages project or from Gnu are generally already quite
> good.
The Linux man pages are good, usually. The GNU man pages are atrocious.
They even admit it, right in their man pages. They (as a project, as a
whole) *hate* man pages and only write a stub that doesn't even cover
all of the basics. Then they tell you that the real documentation is
their GNU-specific "info" page, and you have to go learn an entirely
new program for reading GNU documentation vs. every other program's
documentation.
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