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<li><em>From</em>: Bruce Richardson &lt;<A HREF="mailto:brichardson@lineone.net">brichardson@lineone.net</A>&gt;</li>
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:17:02AM -0400, Robert B. Easter wrote:
&gt; I hope man pages don't go away. For a lot of things, I've found them to be
&gt; most useful since they display from the bash command line.
Quite. I don't think it's practical to try and do away with man or
info anyway. After all, there are now quite a few tools - Gnome Help,
for example - which can present most of the different document formats
in a unified fashion for those that need it.
Not that I'd shed a tear if the info tool disappeared. I find it's
navigation method clunky and much of the GNU info documentation
appallingly written.
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<li><strong><a name="03748" href="msg03748.html">Re: man/info debate</a></strong>
<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Lloyd &lt;lloy0076@rebel.net.au&gt;</li></ul></li>
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