On 2009-02-06, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 06 February 2009 15:29:21 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> > > I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if
>> > > you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them over
>> > > quickly.
>> >
>> > The kde ioslave for info makes this somewhat tolerable. At least you
>> > move around in a webpage-like environment that feels familiar.
>>
>> Which begs the question, why not use HTML? It can be read on just about
>> anything, searched and either split into chapters or presented as a single
>> page.
>
> The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee
> invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman.
Info has been around a lot longer than HTML, but I think you're
largely correct.
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