Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Mon, 2 Aug 1999 18:30:20 +0100 (GMT)


On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Oliver Xymoron 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.

It has already been plugged, but pinfo
(http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~pborys/) can speak both man and info
in a friendly lynx-style.

I'm sure that it must have been written solely so that those of us
who don't like emacs could finally read the gcc and glibc documentation.

Matthew.

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