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

From: Frank Peelo (fpeelo at domain eircom.net)
Date: Wed 10 May 2000 - 14:04:31 IST

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> ...
> is go through everything in it, and get rid of everything except the stuff
> that you know you need. Browsing through the man pages is often a good
idea
> too.

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

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