The Unix Haters' Handbook

[Jules Richardson]

Richard wrote:
> The worst part is when they intentionally cripple the man page and
> force you into the awful info system. 

Aha, the old "The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages,  and  create  info 
documents instead". Bastards. :-)

My preference order goes something like: man page, book, online docs, other 
online resources (Google search, usenet etc.), utility's built-in help, 'info' 
documentation.

How old is 'info' anyway -  does it pre-date widespread (whatever that may 
mean!) web use? I don't think I had cause to come across it until mid/late 90s 
(man pages were pretty well maintained until about then), by which time the 
web was well established. I'm not sure if info is a poor imitation of a bunch 
of HTML pages, or merely a poor implementation of a more general hypertext 
system (which had of course been around for many years previous)

cheers

Jules (skirting the bounds of off-topicness a little... sorry)