Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"
On Thursday, November 17, 2016 04:27:54 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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.
And, with some frequency, the info pages contain the exact same information as
the man pages.
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