"Mike Gerdts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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/
This is what I am using for SchilliX. > 2. http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/bin/man This is new, thanks! But I still believe the best idea is to have things converted to man pages. Info once had been pushed my RMS at a time when people thought that man pages are an insufficient format. Not that POSIX showed that it is possible to use the man page format to even create a 100% complete description of the program's functionality, this claim has become obsolete. > > 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. ,-) Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
