Re: info format (was Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4)

Tim Ricketts (tr@oxlug.org)
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 12:14:50 +0100 (GMT)


On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> torvalds> and if you actually want to be user-friendly you either
> torvalds> use "man" (because that's how everything else is documented and
> torvalds> then you could actually just tell people to use man everywhere)
>
> This is somewhat ridiculous for documents with sizes of a few hundreds
> pages (and your disk is likely full of such documents). This was tried
> with Perl4, for example, and results were not very friendly.

But perl 5 has a perfectly good set of man pages.

-- 
Tim
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