On 11/6/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Mike Gerdts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/5/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "man" on GNU/Linux tends to be worthless. "info" is usually the place > > > to find things in my experience. > > > > True enough. But if I find that I can't get ls to behave properly and > > do "man ls" it would be really handy for that stub of a man page to > > redirect me to info. This could be a person's first hint that their > > PATH isn't what they were expecting. > > It would be better to have man pages as man pages are a POSIX feature.
Maybe a follow on would be to look into tools like info2man[1] to do a conversion. The author of info2man has a customized man[2] command that will automatically convert info pages and present them as expected. I've never tried this tool or explored areas where this approach breaks. 1. http://freshmeat.net/projects/info2man/ 2. http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/bin/man > Unfortunately, "info" does not even have a man page..... I've noticed that. It's kinda like having the download instructions for acroread only available in PDF. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
