[Gllug] Open source == 'Popular Computing'

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Tue Apr 28 23:48:11 UTC 2009


On 20 Apr 2009, Alain Williams spake thusly:

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:38:42AM +0100, James Laver wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Info was one of these great ideas that just did not work.

It worked great... for the 1970s, which was when info (as opposed to
texinfo) was designed.

info is sort of obsolete now. texinfo isn't: it's a damn nice format
to write documents in. emacs-w3m and HTMLized texinfo by default,
yes, I like the idea...
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