Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4

Aaron J. Grier (agrier@poofy.goof.com)
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 22:00:31 -0700


On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:16:21PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:

> I could use decent documentation for all three of those, but the info
> tool is NOT decent. I can't fairly comment on the documentation it is
> supposed to show, since the tool required to show it is so useless to
> begin with that even the best of documentation would appear as being
> useless.

tkinfo isn't too bad...

http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/tkinfo/

Info manuals kick the snot out of man pages when printed and bound, but
for online work, accurate and well written man pages are hard to beat.

I have to echo Jim Gettys' remarks that linux man pages are a mess,
especially compared to, say, NetBSD, where even internal kernel
interfaces and drivers are documented by man pages.

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Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofy.goof.com
"[...] of all the port lists to grumble to about slow CPU speeds and
other resource limitations, I'd imagine that port-vax is not a very
good choice :-)" -- Brian D. Chase

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