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SubjectRe: Stupid df tricks
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:

> These options are non-standard. Worse, the FSF maintainer of the binutils
> in it's infinite wisdom decieded to only maintain the texinfo documentation
> but no longer the nroff man pages, so the newer features aren't documented
> in the manpages anymore. Nevertheless filutils and several other packages
> are shipping with the man pages included. To be fair, the man pages have
> a note at their top about this fact. Yet the fact that more people,
> especially Real Users (TM) don't touch the info pages with a ten feet
> pole because the standard reader info(1) is in no way userfriendly stays.

The info stuff is worse than useless IMHO, the user interface is really
horrid. I just do a rm -rf /usr/info. Bye bye. :o)

Cheers,
Alex
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