[TUHS] man-page style

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Nov 17 07:37:49 AEST 2018


On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Jim Capp wrote:

> I would cringe anytime I had to use "info" ... I always wondered where 
> it camefrom and why they didn't just stick to traditional man pages.

I understand it's because John Gilmore has some sort of an aversion to 
nroff; he is quoted somewhere as "The GNU project does not use nroff" (not 
"free" enough for his delicate sensibilities, maybe?).

-- Dave



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