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From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX))
Subject: [9fans] info bashing
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:14:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60a011b1516d03c3b75bdefd82418045@gandalf.orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb2cd7b7d620f28a22dde56870c922aa@coraid.com>

> i take this as another strike against info.  the fact that one
> sees that the editor's docs are 400+ pages, and there's no easy
> way to cut that down to a man page, and yet they proceeded to
> build bloatware to accomidate bloatware.

That's like blaming Mozilla because you choose to read Sarah Palin's
missives with Firefox.

--lyndon




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-24  6:18 [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts Allan Heim
2011-03-24 13:16 ` hiro
2011-03-24 13:55   ` Gabriel Diaz
2011-03-25 11:50     ` Aharon Robbins
2011-03-25 12:25       ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-25 12:37         ` Lucio De Re
2011-03-25 15:10         ` pmarin
2011-03-25 15:23           ` dexen deVries
2011-03-25 15:32           ` John Floren
2011-03-25 15:41             ` John Floren
2011-03-25 20:21             ` Michael Kerpan
2011-03-25 18:56           ` [9fans] info bashing Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-25 19:08             ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-25 19:14               ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) [this message]
2011-03-25 19:21                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-25 16:48         ` [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts Bakul Shah

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