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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- To: Linux Glibc <glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- From: "Nicholas J. Leon" <nicholas at binary9 dot net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:17:13 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: Kamil Iskra <kamil at dwd dot interkom dot pl>, 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
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
# 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)
Now, Alex, you mustn't keep these things bottled up inside... go ahead and
speak your mind, man! Don't be afraid!
While I agree that the current interface is lacking in many ways, I
wouldn't put it quite so harshly.
I'm currently working (and have been for a while) a perl cgi script that
does on-the-fly converstions of info files to html. It works, but needs
work :)
G'day!
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