%% Brian Boonstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> but the info command - I much prefer man pages to be quite honest.
bb> Amen, brother. Whose bright idea was it to make everybody learn bb> some mysterious set of keystrokes just to read documentation? If bb> I'm enough of a newbie to need the man pages, then maybe, just bb> maybe, I'm enough of a newbie to be flummoxed by the arcane "info" bb> system as well! Have you ever considered what trying to read the GNU Emacs User's Manual would be like in man format, with no indexing, no chapter/section/etc. structure, etc.? That thing is 562 pages long, in PostScript (using variable-width fonts and 8.5x11 pages)! How about the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual? Ouch. Man is great as a format for small reference pages--for man pages. But it sucks for reading manuals. HTML sucks almost as badly. Info is great. Anyway, better than all the alternatives, so far. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Management Development "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
