Messages in this thread | | | From | Coy A Hile <> | Subject | Re: info format | Date | Sat, 7 Aug 1999 13:26:16 -0400 (EDT) |
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Stefan Monnier sez.... > > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Ricketts <tr@oxlug.org> writes: > > But perl 5 has a perfectly good set of man pages. > > No. Perl is the quintessential example of a program whose manpages are mostly > unusable simply because the documentation is too big for the `man' way of > accessing it. If `man perl chop' worked, it would be OK, but it doesn't. An > indexed and hyperlinked manual is much more valuable for those kinds of > applications. > > But, when one combines the perl manpages with the Camel Book (which is always on the bookshelf right beside my console if not on my desk), that is a lot better then the info documentation. Less obfuscated to access.
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