documentation and the unix way, Re: [oclug] documentation rant

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:12:19PM -0400, Sandy Harris wrote:

> Perhaps, but man pages have always been part of the "Unix way(TM)".
> Arguably, the worst mistake the Open Source movement has made was
> FSF deprecating man pages in favour of info.

    Thank God I'm not the only one who thinks this! Thank you Sandy. I
personally think manpages rock. I love Perl's POD format, coupled with
pod2man. Very handy.

    Mike

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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at storm.ca> 
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a
good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be
dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925
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