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Re: generated manpages
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: generated manpages |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:40:32 +0200 (IST) |
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, josX wrote:
> What about merging some data from the info-docs into the help2man
> page via copy-paste.
If the information is already in the Info manual, and is just copied
into the man page, what's the value of that? How is this different
from "info --usage"?
> People new to Unix are more likely to use man than they are to use
> info. (?)
Why? I'd understand if you said they are more likely to look for an HTML
version of the docs, but man pages? that's anathema to anyone who is
keyboard- and command-line-challenged ;-).