19 Nov
2018
19 Nov
'18
4:09 a.m.
On 11/17/18 10:00 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2018-11-17 7:31 PM, Donald ODona wrote:
The man page for bash includes everything. The info manual includes more
examples. I think other authors should follow that model, but I'm not going
to tell a volunteer what he has to do, and I understand how difficult it is
to maintain parallel content.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
At 17 Nov 2018 23:39:45 +0000 (+00:00) from Ralph Corderoy
<ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk>:
In many notable examples, that is not true: e.g. GNU make, bash or bison
come quickly to mind. You can't fully learn how to use tools like these
from the abbreviated man page; for one thing, the man page only mentions
a fraction of the features.
From somewhere that didn't fit in well with Unix.
its based on TekInfo,
whereas 'Tek' allegedly refers to the anachronistic Tape Editor and Corrector,
developed by a student (Dan Murphy) in 1964 on a PDP-1 without a operation system.
According to the myth TekInfo was build on top of the Tape Editor, and finally made it on
*NIX.
'Info' really doesn't fit in well with Unix. Its alien and another failed
approach. Almost all 'GNU' man pages state, that the 'full'
documentation is only available via 'info'. In real 99% of all 'info'
requests result in 'info' processing a man page.