On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 07:16:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 2005/11/14, j l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> Here is one who does not miss info at all. man was >>> there so why reinvent the wheel? >> >> Right, but the problem is if manual says only "see info". >> >> -- >> Jaroslaw Swierczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> www.archlinux.org | www.juvepoland.com > >Easy answer...-> the author is a goof. i.e. Info files are not the >PRIMARY standard, man files are, therefore it makes little sense to do >things that way.
AFAIK GNU has standardised on info, not man[1] (I don't particularly thing that's a good thing, but it seems to be the way it is). Yes, many info documents are available online, however in some cases they aren't available in nice browsable formats[2]. That Arch lacks info is a drawback (I haven't installed Arch yet), but it doesn't deter me from installing Arch. If I miss info I'll have to look into putting something together myself. /M 1. http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ (first sentence) 2. http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/index.html (comment on HTML) -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. A picture is worth a thousand words; unfortunately, it consumes the bandwidth of ten thousand words.
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