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In article <4ijp92$1d9@solutions.solon.com>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
:In article <4ieue0$ba5@solutions.solon.com>, ok@cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
:
:|> When I want to find out how to use gcc to generate makefile dependencies,
:|> all I want is the "quick reference" so that I can find out how to spell
:|> -MM and whether it has one M or two.  I don't _want_ a long tutorial.
:
:A good TeXinfo manual has an `Invoking foo' or `foo Invocation' entry
:in the toplevel menu, pointing to a node that should be written like a
:quick reference, with cross references to the more complete
:documentation.  This is far superior to man pages.

To briefly re-enter this fray:

I tried "info gcc" as someone suggested.  It's nice.  The man page
should point to it, however.  If it had, rather than just stating that
the authors consider man pages to be obsolete, I probably wouldn't
have made my previous post.  (No, I don't consider pointing to
"the Info file" to be equivalent to the fact that there might be
an "info" command installed.)

However, it (info) seems to lack any way to save to a file in ascii
for downloading & printing; unless it can do that, it's not a
replacement for man pages.  (Quite apart from the arguments regarding
needing both short and long descriptions.)

Hope the moderator isn't too sick of this branch of this thread yet :)

Cheers,
Stan.
--
Stan Ryckman  (stanr@tiac.net)
  (Apologies for non-responses or late responses to some posts;
  .newsrc was trashed and I'm trying to get it back to where it was.)