"Ted Unangst" writes: > carbolite:~> pnmtopng -? > pnmtopng: Use 'man pnmtopng' for help. > carbolite:~> man pnmtopng > man: No entry for pnmtopng in the manual. > > This feel vaguely familiar, but I can't remember why it is so.
>From https://sourceforge.net/p/netpbm/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/doc/USERDOC: Since May 2002, Netpbm does not have traditional man pages for documentation. BUT YOU CAN CONFIGURE NETPBM, IF YOU WANT, SO YOU GET ESSENTIALLY THE SAME 'MAN' FUNCTION AS WITH A TRADITIONAL UNIX PACKAGE. Netpbm's maintainer believes man pages are obsolete and too limiting, and doesn't have time to maintain the documentation in multiple formats. So instead of classic nroff man page format, the Netpbm documentation is available as HTML, with one HTML file per program, plus some others. The current user manual is accessible on the World Wide Web at <http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc>... Meh. The 'configure to get essentially the same man' thing seems to require manual (heh) configuration and some extra files... I gave up after a couple of minutes. -- Anthony J. Bentley
