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SubjectRe: Linux 2.2.11pre4
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > I wouldn't know, because it's not documented in the man-page due to the
> > > silly FSF hatred towards man-pages and being easy to use.
> >
> > Heh. The obvious solution has always seemed to me that man(1) should be
> > taught about info files.
>
> Why? The obvious solution has always appeared to be to just get rid of
> info files.

I wasn't thinking of bringing up info (which has a substantially _worse_
interface than emacs), but rather rerendering the files to their printable
form - texinfo is designed for making typeset hardcopy just like nroff so
making pager- or xman-friendly output should be doable.

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