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Re: (Getting rid of) man pages
- To: Keith Duthie <psycho at albatross dot co dot nz>
- Subject: Re: (Getting rid of) man pages
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:08:31 +0200 (MET DST)
- cc: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>, CaT <cat at zip dot com dot au>, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Keith Duthie wrote:
> 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.
...thus getting obsolete, incomplete and probably even incorrect
information in the case of egcs. :-(
That's exactly why I suggest removing these man pages from the egcs
distribution.
Gerald
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