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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: info vs. man Date: 30 Jul 1995 11:47:04 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3vfrfo$ajn@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3veohd$5kr@news.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3veohd$5kr@news.bu.edu>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote: >Can someone, having nothing better to do at the moment, explain >the difference, and why there should be different functionality? I have better things to do, but I'll answer anyway.. :-) > 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. Unfortunately, texinfo doc isn't the easist stuff to write nor does it appear to be the "wave of the future" - that'd be SGML, I guess. I've written quite a lot of texinfo stuff myself, but I can't say that it was very painless. We'll see how the new FreeBSD Handbook, all done in SGML, pans out. Jordan