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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- To: Kamil Iskra <kamil at dwd dot interkom dot pl>
- Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- From: Alex Buell <alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 06:04:54 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: Alex Buell <alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk>, Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>, egcs at cygnus dot com, Linux Glibc <glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu>
- Reply-To: alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Kamil Iskra wrote:
> man pages are supposed to provide clear, concise reference information
> about commandline options and stuff like that. On the contrary, EGCS info
> files contains GNU GPL, "look and feel" manifesto, description of RTL, md,
> tm etc. Do you really suggest to put them in a man page?
I don't care. If the text console version of the info program didn't suck
so badly, I might be thinking better thoughts about info files, but I
don't, so RMS can go suck his left nut for dreaming up such a horrid user
interface. (And yes, I know there are alternatives like tkinfo but
they're x-based)
Hmm.. maybe I can throw away the info program and write a better one that
works the same way Lynx does.
Cheers,
Alex
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