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Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 2009 20:35:58 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, utisoft@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD
Message-ID:  <20090604203558.fb99ea2c.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906041920320.35430@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:21:01 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> > PS Does _anyone_ prefer info manuals, apart from Stallman?
> >
> I don't, it's much easier to just type man something than browsing through 
> big document

As far as I know, info doesn't let you search document-wide
(including all subsections, branches and crossreferences)
while man documents - being ONE document - let's you do this.

Furthermore, it's quite easy to turn a a manpage into a nice
looking PS / PDF file for printing and archiving.

zcat `man -w <COMMAND>` | groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - man.pdf

I'm not sure you can do this with info based manuals...


-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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