[Info-vax] VMS Help, man pages and info, was: Re: Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

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On 02/05/2013 09:46 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> Also, you can search through all the man pages in one go to find matching
> keywords. You cannot do that with VMS help.
man uses a pager and the pager offers the search. Try 'man -P cat man' 
to use cat as the pager.

On VMS try "$ pipe help/out=sys$output help * |type /page=save 
sys$input". Unfortunately type is not a pager with a search capability.

> The info manuals I read the most are the binutils linker manual (try
> finding the GNU ld linker script syntax and usage documentation on the
> ld man page :-)), the gcc manual and the make manual.
Which seems just a matter of who spent more time on writing man pages or 
the info manual.