W. Paul Mills([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > > > To summarize somewhat, perhaps unfairly, the GNU Project seems to > > believe that providing a complete detailed manual is always preferable > > to providing a reference card; the Debian Project observes that not all > > upstream authors have the time or inclination for a complete manual and, > > all other things being equal, prefers to have some reasonable > > documentation for most things than excellent documentation for a few and > > poor documentation for most. > > > > Man pages are things that both authors and readers can pick up quickly. > > I'm in the habit of using info for a very few GNU packages (make, > > autoconf, and the libc being prime examples), but given the choice I > > still prefer a quick 'man foo'. > > Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are > much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help.
Have you tried pinfo? Description: An alternative info-file viewer pinfo is an viewer for Info documents, which is based on ncurses. The key-commands are in the style of lynx. -- Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
