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Re: (Getting rid of) man pages
- To: psycho at albatross dot co dot nz (Keith Duthie)
- Subject: Re: (Getting rid of) man pages
- From: CaT <cat at zip dot com dot au>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 03:25:38 +1000 (EST)
- Cc: oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br, cat at zip dot com dot au, pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
Keith Duthie wrote the following:
>
> On 22 Apr 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> > On Apr 22, 1999, CaT <cat@zip.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > html would be just as bad. :/
> >
> > What's wrong with lynx? :-)
> The latest version seems to mess up the terminal fonts (I've probably
> misconfigured it). Other than that, nothing.
Hmm.. I've not had problems so could be.
> > > What IS ionvolved in maintaining the man pages btw?
> >
> > Your sending legal papers to the FSF to become their official
> > maintainer? :-D
> Which is probably one of the main reasons why nobody has stepped forward.
And has made me do a bit of a doubletake...
> Perhaps someone could write a script to automagically convert the info
> files to man pages.
I've been pondering this. would be difficult in some respects. At least to
keep the order of information sane automatically.
> I'm not entirely sure why the FSF wants to get rid of man pages in favour
> of info files, but I for one turn to info only as a last resort, whereas I
> turn to man as a first resort.
Ditto. It seems like a bizarr ething to do and I fail to understand it. I've
had more problems with info then I ever have with man. I like man's
simplicity.
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