From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 17: 2:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.cray.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5FC237B479 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:02:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29694; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:02:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id RAA14032; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:02:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:02:42 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: David Johnson Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Rasputin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beginners with bsd Message-ID: <20001102170242.A14016@athena.sea.tera.com> References: <000a01c043c3$942af1e0$1d24fc3e@knapp> <20001102093329.B14637@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20001103003014.D4698@hades.hell.gr> <3A01F6D9.6320A0E5@acuson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: <3A01F6D9.6320A0E5@acuson.com>; from David Johnson on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:20:57PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:20:57PM -0800, David Johnson wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > Unlike (R**h**) Linux, where > > > > > > 'this manpage is no longer maintained - we just like installing files' > > > > > > seems to be the most common entry. > > > > What can anyone say about an OS where the manpages are considered something > > `extra' that is not part of the system itself? *sigh* > > It's not just R**H**, it's all of the Linux distributions that use GNU. > GNU wants you to use info instead of man. What is especially obnoxious > is when you use info and see the words "this man page is not longer > maintained...". > > I've been tempted to write an info2man conversion utility and donate it > to GNU, but I know that they would never use it, too heretical. > I'll throw in my dime's worth and suggest that every `info' page be turned into a man-style page with hyperlinks. If hyperlinks (and space) been available 25 years ago, every manual entry would've had links. Another think the man pages would've had is examples. The reason man pages were so terse was that disk space was extremely costly. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message