On 2012-01-15 09:32, gene heskett wrote:
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:14:38 AM Joerg Schilling did opine:
Mark Krenz<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 09:35:29AM GMT, Sergey Poznyakoff
[[email protected]] said the following:
No, and there are no plans of doing so either. Tar is fully
documented in texinfo format. The manual is included in the
distribution. Apart from that, it is available online in various
formats at
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual. Given all that, I see no
reason in any additional man pages.
You make it sound like man pages are going away.
This is a false claim from Richard Stallman.....
The POSIX standard defines man pages and for this reason, man pages have
the first priority for documentation. Whether or not there is
additional documentation is another (less important) aspect.
And BTW: the fact that the man system offers a better user interface
seems to be the reason why people are requesting man pages.
A point VERY carefully ignored by the GNU people. And one that damages the
users belief that open source is better than closed source the instant they
try to figure how to run that info thing and its broken user interface.
Thank $DEITY we have a man page for info or we would never be able to
figure out how to get the info we want out of info.
Wouldn't it be apropriate after more than 20 years, that the attempt to
introduce a different documentation system by GNU failed and to switch
to the standard?
Jِrg
I am not always on your side Mr. Schilling, but in this instance I find
myself in rather violent agreement. Scary, isn't it...
Yes, same feeling here.
Anybody has any experience with the "info format"?
How difficult would it be to write a convert from info to man format? Is man
still in troff, or does it use another format as it's primary source?
It seems a waste of energy to have each distro writing their own man pages.
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