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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 08:23, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> PDFs are really slow to open.
> If you learn some new topic and open 20-30 man pages then it is very
> fast. Try that with PDFs.
>
> I dislike PDFs for performance. I prefer man pages, info, or HTML.

I'm with Duaine.

HTML is a hideous medium for publishing. Info makes me gag. Paging 
through the CLI man viewer is tedious. Printing from any of these media 
is very problematic. And just how do you concurrently view your "20-30 
man pages?"

Performance problems are almost always transient. If someone wanted a 
fast-launching PDF reader, they could produce it. Hell, you could 
integrate it into the kernel. (It works for Microsoft...)


> --
> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"


Randall Schulz
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