[Gllug] Open source == 'Popular Computing'

[James Laver]

On 20 Apr 2009, at 11:36, Peter Corlett wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:02:23AM +0100, pavithran wrote:
> [...]
>> What happened to good old "man" ?
>
> Man pages are only useful if you already understand the Unix  
> mentality and
> happen to already know the command exists and roughly what it does.  
> Even us
> grizzled old-timers sometimes have a hard time remembering the name  
> of some
> obscure command, and man -k doesn't always help.
>
> It's even worse if it's a GNU utility, thanks to their hard-on for  
> info
> pages. The man page is a stub that tells you to do "info foo", and  
> on doing
> that will bring up the same stub man page again. Thanks, guys.


Some of them do have info pages. Your distribution of choice probably  
elects not to install them. When the info page is missing, one is  
converted automatically from a manpage. Hence being the same.

--James
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