On Feb 11, 1999, Stefan Troeger wrote:
> Btw. there is also a nice info page with far more than you've
> ever wanted to know about tar ;-)
Ah, that's just the problem :-)
<rant>
Info pages are an invention of the devil, as far as I'm concerned. In
the SuSE 5.2 (English) distro, the pages are strewn with distracting
editorial asides ("This shouldn't be here in the final copy") and
organized into painfully tortured sections connected by "pseudo-
hyperlinks." If one already knows; e.g., tar, backward and forward maybe
the info pages will call some vaguely-remembered option to mind, but for
actually learning to use the command, forget it.
I (for one) learn linearly, so the 'man' pages were ideal. If only we
weren't so web obsessed. Sigh.
</rant>
OK, purists, flame away.
Howard Arons
PS. All the above notwithstanding, thanks for your informative
response.
H
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