Help Guide Feedback - Was: Etiquette Guide

[Tom Diehl]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Aaron Matteson wrote:

> Mike MacCana became daring and sent these 1.0K bytes,
> > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Aaron Matteson wrote:
> > 
> > > What i am posting about it a request for feedback on what i have done so
> > > far, i would hate to complete it and realize that i did it wrong.
> > > Pointers would also be gratefully accepted.
> > 
> > Good stuff, its nice and simple. Some feedback:
> > 
> > * A thought: maybe replace 'man' with 'info'. Info documentation is often
> > better maintained than man pages, and if you type 'info' and there's no

Only if you are using packages maintained by fsf.

> > info page, it'll fall back to using the man page - so users get the best
> > available.

But either way you get something that is painful to use at best.

> 
> Good idea, will do.

PLEASE do not do this. Info is pure garbage. Pinfo is not much better but at least
it is somewhat useful when you are forced to use it.

Tom