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Re: Encouraging good coding standards - call for participation...

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From: Jeffrey Nowakowski
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 16:31
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Matthew Sams <maclean@CS.McGill.CA> writes:

[..]

> Personally I find the info system much better than the man system
> for long complex documents. Can you imagine the emacs lisp manual in
> man page format? eek.

Getting way off topic here, but such is Usenet.  If GNU wants to call
man pages obsolete, then they should trash Info too and switch to
HTML, which is a lot more powerful and easier to use.

-Jeff
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Subject: Re: Encouraging good coding standards - call for participation...
Date: 10 Mar 1996 10:31:29 -0600
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