Ok, Ima newbie. What's the command to run the info pages? I tried info tar //command not found then I tried man info //returned information about the state of the Tcl interpreter Thanks! Eric On Thursday 30 May 2002 00:05, Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote:
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:14, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
The man page for tar has been useless for years...the info page is much better.
From the tar man page:
"BUGS The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead. The maintainer of tar falls into this category. This man page is neither complete, nor current, and was included in the Debian Linux packaging of tar entirely to reduce the frequency with which the lack of a man page gets reported as a bug in our defect tracking system.
If you really want to understand tar, then you should run info and read the tar info pages, or use the info mode in emacs."
For me one of the biggest obstacle in using Linux was reading the man pages... Now it's my best friend, but I've never got to like info pages, isn't there any project going on to convert the information in the info doc. to man pages?
Regards Jónas