On Monday 30 April 2018 10:44:56 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:37:22AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The recommendation to get the full story via info/pinfo is a > > running joke > > This is specific to the GNU project. They're pushing their "info" > reader and their "texinfo" documentation format for their own > political reasons. (To be honest, the *roff format used by man pages > *does* suck. But still.) > > > as those files appear to be made by just copying the man > > page into the info format. > > That's untrue. Compare a GNU info page to the same tool's GNU man > page and you will see a huge difference. > > wooledg:~$ man ls | wc > 233 911 7823 > wooledg:~$ info coreutils ls | wc > 835 4551 34791 > > In this example, the info page is about 4 times as large as the man > page.
That is not a fair comparison. The manpage covers one specific piece, a single utility, where coreutils supposedly covers it all. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
