Re: [nottingham] info pages

From: Robert Davies (Rob_Davies@NTLWorld.Com)
Date: Fri 20 Apr 2001 - 23:59:42 BST


> I use info because it is the FSF officially endorsed "replacement" for
> ancient man pages.

So why are projects like Debian and most distro's keen on full set of man
pages?

info good for tutorial type stuff (I tend to find the pages state the
obvious, not what you want to know), man pages tend to have the summary's,
particularly useful for options, and use whatever damn viewer works for you!
I quite liked the Gnome Help System program, which I continued using (even)
with KDE.

Let's concentrate on the +ve, and informative last thing I want is to start
another Mine V Yours style thread :)

Rob

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