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On 2009-02-06, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Friday 06 February 2009 15:29:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> > > I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if |
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>> > > you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them over |
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>> > > quickly. |
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>> > The kde ioslave for info makes this somewhat tolerable. At least you |
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>> > move around in a webpage-like environment that feels familiar. |
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>> Which begs the question, why not use HTML? It can be read on just about |
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>> anything, searched and either split into chapters or presented as a single |
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>> page. |
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> The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee |
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> invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman. |
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Info has been around a lot longer than HTML, but I think you're |
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largely correct. |
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