[ale] alternate boot using GRUB or others?

[Jeff Lightner]

For some reason Linux has gone to "info" rather than "man" for a lot of detail.  Some of the Linux man pages are full man pages and when you run info that's all you'll see.  For many things though man will either show no page at all or just a short page that says to see the info page.

The "why change success" is one of the reasons I don't like info.  Also it causes Linux to diverge from UNIX in yet another way.


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul Cartwright
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:53 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] alternate boot using GRUB or others?

On Thu September 21 2006 11:43 am, Jerry Yu wrote:
> Shame on me, I should have RTFMed. wait, I did read man page but it
> doesn't say anything about fallback. The info page does. ...sigh...
> time for me to move on. I disliked the GNU's move from man to info
> and still read my man pages, aware of caveat they may not be as
> updated as their ?info counterparts. ?hadn't ran into trouble until
> now! wonder how many people truly like the info page besides whoever
> manages them.

ok.... I guess I need to RTFM myself, what IS an info page?? I've used 
man pages for 20 years, why change success???

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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800 
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