Re: man v. info (was Re: mandb gets stuck!)

2001-09-03 Thread Rino Mardo
wow. ever thought of getting into law practice? :-) i think i touched on a very touchy issue here. i'll just go find a simple project for my python. thanks for all the replies guys! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at htt

Re: man v. info (was Re: mandb gets stuck!)

2001-09-03 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:13:10PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 01:44:45PM +0200, Cliff Sarginson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 11:49:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:31:47PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: I agree wit

Re: man v. info (was Re: mandb gets stuck!)

2001-09-03 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Nelson wrote: > I also agree. I think what bothers me most about info pages is that > they often read like books. Not suprising, they often *are* books. I have a book on my shelf that has about a 100% correspondence to the gdb info page. Though the gdb info page lacks RPM's autograph.. --

Re: man v. info (was Re: mandb gets stuck!)

2001-09-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 11:54:09PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > I also agree. I think what bothers me most about info pages is that > they often read like books. They're usually arranged in a format > resembling chapters covering each topic in thorough detail. This is > fine if I want to read a

Re: man v. info (was Re: mandb gets stuck!)

2001-09-02 Thread Brian Nelson
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > The problem is that this is often specifically what is *not* sought by > those who are looking for manpages. What's wanted is a short, concise, > but illustrative reference providing: > > - A functional description of the command. > > - A synopsis of all options

Re: man v. info (was Re: mandb gets stuck!)

2001-09-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:13:10PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Personally, I'd strongly recommend that the GNU project revisit the > issue of info pages altogether. They're not popular, they don't > adequately replace man pages, and there is a far more successful and > ubiquitous hypertext mod

man v. info (was Re: mandb gets stuck!)

2001-09-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 01:44:45PM +0200, Cliff Sarginson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 11:49:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:31:47PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > getting a little OT here but can all the man databases be converted to > > > in