man or info - was Re: [ILUG] Minimum services

[Martin Donlon]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Caolan McNamara wrote:

> On 10.05.00, 15:05:05, "Frank Peelo" <fpeelo at eircom.net> wrote regarding 
> man or info - was Re: [ILUG] Minimum services:
> 
> > man gets mentioned a lot, but I haven't seen info at all. Why would that > 
> be? Is info not as good as man, or is it not available on all systems?
> 
> > Just curious
> > Frank
> 
> Because info was slightly pre web and the default infopage browser info 
> must rank as the most hideous to use hyperlinked program known to man. 
> 
> Fire it up there on your linux machine and bask in its warm glow. If you 
> are an emacs user and use the inbuild emacs info mode then Ive heard 
> mention that its quite spiffy. I have used it about twice in six years, 
> each time for about 2.5 seconds.
> 
> Its not really info the file format that is at fault, but info the 
> browser that has given it the bad name. 
I must say I quite like info. You kinda had to use it with DJGPP under dos
as your only source of...well...info:)

Martin
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