[Info-vax] Radical command line suggestion

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-18 15:56:29 +0000, Bob Koehler said:

> In article <f26e8302-e3f9-4fd9-bb73-9501fe886115 at googlegroups.com>, 
> johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk writes:
>> 
>> man and info may have advantages (vs HELP) as tools for navigation. Maybe
>> HELP needs an update then?
> 
>    man has advantages?  On what planet?  man is the worst thing I've
>    ever used, and is only barely tolerable if the X10 based xman gui
>    is used instead of the terminal window man.

man (with less) has text-traversal capabilities, which means a reader 
can page forward and backward, and search.  Is man a great tool?  No.  
Is it better than OpenVMS HELP?  Yes.  Are the contents of various man 
pages awful?  Yes.  Are there better ways to do documentation than HELP 
or man?  Yes.


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