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

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From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:53
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In article <4io1l4$nrj@solutions.solon.com>, makholm@diku.dk (Henning Makholm) writes:

|> If all you ever use is Gnu software with info files, then fine. In a
|> RealWorld<tm> environment with a large heterogenous mass of software
|> users (me!) want to be able to obtain a quickref for any executable in
|> their standard PATH via a simple, consistent procedure. Whether the
|> procedure consists of infoking some info reader or just using man is
|> unimportant - but it has to be the *same* for all commands. I.e. man foo.

alias man=info

The latest version of info (as included in the texinfo-3.7 package)
can load manual pages as well.

\end{off-topic}
-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"
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From: schwab@lamothe.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab)
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Subject: Re: Encouraging good coding standards - call for participation...
Date: 20 Mar 1996 09:53:12 -0600
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