[plug] Man pages

[Peter Scully]

Bevan Broun wrote:

> So does nobody like man pages except me? For some larger man pages I
> like the html format but most of the time I prefer using man. man is
> small and fast and, with PAGER set to less, searching is easier.
>
> You can add my vote for man pages, I only got into linux recently and
> one of the first problems I had to cope with was being unable to use X -
> tell me how ya gonna read HTML pages in that circumstance.  But mostly I
> like to be able to call up a man page on the spot, rather than being
> locked into an M$-style windows situation.

> got a .info file - now you have to learn how to use the info program,
> after installing it, which took me a while and is something I use so
> infrequently that Im never going to be good at it. Man I use all the
> time on many different unixes.
>
> I still don't know how to use them (the shame of it all)