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From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to move to rc from sh/bash
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:57:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080212115704.GA851@shodan.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d375e920802111559kb5557d2k182a810ad4c11123@mail.gmail.com>

* Uriel (uriel99@gmail.com) wrote:
> It is more likely that the information you want is not even in the man
> page, gnu man pages are severely crippled, and if you want the real
> documentation you have to travel to info hell which is likely to
> contain ten times as much (mis)information and be ten times harder to
> browse.
>
> And there you have the greatest innovation GNU has ever brought to
> unix, in gnu systems I rarely even bother checking the docs, because
> even random trial and error usually takes much less effort than
> navigating the fetid info swamp.
>
> uriel

Damn, I was just going to ignore that mess.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-12 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-09  7:53 Hongzheng Wang
2008-02-09  8:01 ` mattmobile
2008-02-09  8:41   ` Hongzheng Wang
2008-02-09  8:57     ` mattmobile
2008-02-09  9:00 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-09  9:21   ` Hongzheng Wang
2008-02-09 10:11 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-09 10:27   ` Lluís Batlle
2008-02-09 15:06     ` Uriel
2008-02-09 17:54     ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-09 21:59       ` geoff
2008-02-09 13:00   ` Anthony Sorace
2008-02-10 16:59 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-02-10 17:16   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-10 17:47     ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-10 18:12     ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-11 15:04       ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-11 23:03         ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-11 23:25           ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-20 15:04             ` maht
2008-02-20 15:08               ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-02-20 15:24               ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-20 15:55                 ` maht
2008-02-11 23:59       ` Uriel
2008-02-12 11:57         ` Martin Neubauer [this message]

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