* Imre Vida ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > hi, > > i just read the (sub)thread above on man v. info > and i thought it is much more important than > to have it hidden in there. So i thought i try > to pick it up again. > > The major sources of help/information for me are > the apropos, the -h/--help options and the man pages. > These are fast and efficient means to find what i want > most of the time. > > As far as info is concerned, i fully agree with Karsten. > It doesn't work intuitively for me either; i just get > lost in the maze of links and 3 sentence pages.... > I hate it for this. > > The lack of manpages, and outdated manpages are frustrating. > And what Karsten brought up is also a nice idea: > to have examples in man pages. There are some manpages with examples > but most of them are without although they are really helpful.
<mode="my $.02"> On IRIX, for one example, many man pages do have EXAMPLES section; they had it for ages. Writing a decent manpage is obviously way too hard. Let's invent a maze of twisty little hyperlinks, all alike, instead, and call it "info".</mode> Dima -- I have not been able to think of any way of describing Perl to [person] "Hello, blind man? This is color." -- DPM