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.
prev parent 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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