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From: dnelson@xnet.com (Dan Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: info vs. man
Date: 31 Jul 1995 03:37:33 GMT
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
>In article <3veohd$5kr@news.bu.edu>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote:
>> info uucp
>>vs
>> man i uucp
>>
>>for instance? Or GNU guys make it much better then man? Then why not
>
>info is a totally different documentation system than man. It's
>interactive, for one thing, and it supports links between documents.
I like the hypertext part of it, but I can't stand the reader (info).
Cursor keys don't even work. I'd use it if up/down/pgup/pgdn/tab/backtab
were supported.
-Dan Nelson Real programmers don't comment their
/\ /\/\ | (_, /\ code. It was hard to write; it should
dnelson@xnet.com be hard to understand.