On 26/01/10 09:07, Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:45 +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: >> It annoys me that tar doesn't have a proper man page. > > I believe the maintainers are among those who prefer to provide their > documentation in the texinfo format, something not uncommon among GNU > projects. Unfortunately, most users probably don't even know the 'info' > command exists, never mind how to actually use it, so that documentation > is somewhat wasted. >
Info has it's uses, for example apps like bash or make which are so complex that if you put all the documentation in a single man page it would be so big it would be impractical to use. However, tar is not that complex. A single man page for tar works fine. If the developers refuse to make one because they prefer info then that is broken by design. Personally I never use info. If I can't find what I need in the man page I do what the OP did and use Google. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
