Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/03/22/23:28:33
I said:
> I think it's easier to add "if info is broken, first try running
> unix2dos in the info directory" to the FAQ than to explain how to update
> the tags.
and Stuart replied:
Alternatively, port the info into something better. GNU's Info is slow,
confusing to the non-initiate, and unsatisfactory for searches *imho*.
Are you going to *support* (ie, maintain, bug-fix, and update
consistently) these man pages? If not, then they will very quickly be
out of date. Every recent GNU program comes with a warning that man
pages are not to be relied upon and will not be supported.
A better idea (not mine) would be to turn them into html docs and
get someone to put them up on World-Wide-Web. We'd also need to port
a stand-alone reader so that people without WWW access could FTP the
docs.
--Steve
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