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Article #50343Re: Man pages needed!
From: Richard Stallman
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1993 17:47
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1993 17:47
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You might try the GNU library manual, which can be referred to on line using Info. We wrote our documentation using Texinfo because that's better in most respects than man pages; we don't have the resources to support man pages as well. Using info requires a certain fixed amount of time to find the node you want. When you are lucky with man, it saves this fixed amount of time. I believe someone is working on a GNU man program which will noninteractively extract the appropriate node from the info tree, and thus give the best of both worlds.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11318c,96dabb4a13abfd0b X-Google-Attributes: gid11318c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-10-09 10:53:49 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!gnu.ai.mit.edu!rms From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help Subject: Re: Man pages needed! Date: 9 Oct 1993 13:47:39 -0400 Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 10 Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Message-ID: <9310091744.AA29922@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <PI92AE.93Oct9160754@bengan.pt.hk-r.se>