M Harris wrote: > On Monday 09 April 2007 00:26, dwain wrote: > >> How do I get to the man pages again? >> > Actually, they are mostly obsolete... > > ... you want to load and use info these days.... > > > Really? There are quite a few commands that do not have an info entry! Man is a unix thing and commands with a strong unix history or produced outside the GNU project tend to have man pages (or entries in something else that I cannot remember the name off but probably is redundant for the Linux community). Info is a GNU thing and GNU projects tend to have info documents Both are useful for different reasons but GNU enthusiasts do tend to overdo the 'Man pages are dead' mantra somewhat, Especially as some info documents (e.g. the tar info entry) have an embarrassing number of "must write something sensible here" references. For quick lookups man pages are good, for more complete references info documents are useful if occasionally incoherent.
The Linux Documentation Project (while not exactly on-line documentation) is trying to collate that information and bring some coherence to that documentation that does exist, and identify and fill the gaps. Their HowTo's can be particularly useful. > But if you insist, you can run > > man man > > You want to know how to use vi... type > > man vi > > (or) info vi > > > >
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