Re: info vs. man

2024-06-12 Thread Max Nikulin
On 12/06/2024 01:00, Greg Wooledge wrote: On 11/06/2024 06:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: Should you ever feel a need to read the longer version of the documentation, it's in GNU info pages. So you would need to type the command "info coreutils date" to get to it. And then you'd need to figure out t

Re: info vs. man (was: Re: date for week)

2024-06-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 11:22:17PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 11/06/2024 06:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Should you ever feel a need to read the longer version of the > > documentation, it's in GNU info pages. So you would need to type > > the command "info coreutils date" to get to it. And t

info vs. man (was: Re: date for week)

2024-06-11 Thread Max Nikulin
On 11/06/2024 06:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: Should you ever feel a need to read the longer version of the documentation, it's in GNU info pages. So you would need to type the command "info coreutils date" to get to it. And then you'd need to figure out the user interface of the "info" program, wh

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-02-12 12:29:40 -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > You can either get the html version of the documentation (texinfo > can be converted to html). [...] but invalid HTML... -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:29:40PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Or you can cat all the various info files into one big one: > zcat /usr/share/info/gcc* ./gcc.info > and then you can just search through gcc.info with whatever > text tool you like. Oops, that was overkill, Alan Shutko pointed out

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:52:25PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I see your point ... but ugh. > > I'll take a single document that I can search and eyeball-scan over > multiple linked documents almost always. Example: the fetchmail man > page. Yes, it's farking huge, but I can find what I n

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-12 Thread Alan Shutko
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'll take a single document that I can search and eyeball-scan over > multiple linked documents almost always. Example: the fetchmail man > page. Yes, it's farking huge, but I can find what I need by searching > on a key term. Just as a point of

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-12 Thread Paul Smith
%% "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: myh> I'll take a single document that I can search and eyeball-scan myh> over multiple linked documents almost always. Example: the myh> fetchmail man page. Yes, it's farking huge, but I can find what myh> I need by searching on a key te

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread Florentin Ionescu
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote : » Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:52:25 -0700 » From: Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » Subject: Re: Info vs Man » Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:12:17 -0600 (CST) » Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » » On 2004-02-11,

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-11, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) penned: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 13:10:51 -0600, Kent West wrote: >> At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to >> go with info pages instead of man pages? > >> Some of the other hits seemed to imply that man pages were better, >> althou

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:10:51PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go > with info pages instead of man pages? They feel that man pages make poor user manuals. And they don't want to have redundant information (a man page as a referenc

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:10:51PM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go > with info pages instead of man pages? > > I googled several times with different search terms, but didn't find > much; this was probably the

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 13:10:51 -0600, Kent West wrote: > At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go > with info pages instead of man pages? > Some of the other hits seemed to imply that man pages were better, > although there was no definitive explanation as to why

Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread Kent West
At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go with info pages instead of man pages? I googled several times with different search terms, but didn't find much; this was probably the best hit I found: http://users.netwit.net.au/~pursang/dtil/howto_9.html and it doesn't