I must again speak up for the simple - I find the the plain ASCII text
version of the specification the easiest to use. In fact, its the only
one I've ever needed. Pipe it into your favorite pager and it works just
like a man page. It even includes a handy search function!
Just type:
cat spec.txt | grep <what-you-want-to-look-for-here>
Indexes, cross-references, page numbers and pretty-printing don't add
anything to documentation for me. The ability to easily and quickly read
it, even if I was stuck on a VT100 terminal with a 1200BPS connection,
is much more useful.
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> > The FreeBSD port pulls down the additional tarball exim-texinfo-x.yz and
> > builds and installs info files from the texinfo source.
> >
> > For Juha's benefit, the FreeBSD port for Exim has never installed manual
> > pages. If the objection to info files is simply that the info(1)
> > interface sucks, grab another info(1) browser, e.g.
> >
> > pinfo ncurses ports/misc/pinfo
> > tkinfo X11/Tk ports/misc/tkinfo
>
> Hurrghh... can't we have man pages instead? Never thought I'd say that,
> but after doing the two-fisted keyboard routine when faced with "info", I
> think the simpler the better.
>
>
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