discuss: man pages
Subject:
Re: man pages
From:
Togan Muftuoglu ####@####.####
Date:
15 May 2003 18:47:09 -0000
Message-Id: <20030515184701.GR1190@dinamizm.com>
* Howard Shane; ####@####.#### on 15 May, 2003 wrote:
>I've been disappointed with most of the info pages I've consulted. The
>info page in question is usually a) marginally more readable, b) less
>comprehensive, or c) doesn't exist for the program in question. (Rarely
>they do get it right, though, as in the textutils documentation.)
Well said, being able to program does not necessarily mean being able to
document what is intended. IMHO 95% of info and man pages do suck and
thats one of the reasons I pay X amount of dollars to publishers like
Oreilly to get a better documentation of what I should have already by
having the program.
--
Togan Muftuoglu
