Re: generated manpages

[josX]

>On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, josX wrote:
>> What about merging some data from the info-docs into the help2man
>> page via copy-paste.
>If the information is already in the Info manual, and is just copied
>into the man page, what's the value of that?  How is this different
>from "info --usage"?

I could just an easily say: "If the information is already in the program
through the '--help' and '--version' arguments, and is just copied
into the man page, what's the value of that?  How is this different
from "PROGRAM --help/version | less"?"

The info inside `info ls` would make a damn fine standard
manpage, why did you guys ever start with that 'info' thing.
`man` is extremely straighforward, why bother with all the menus...just
confusing...

I'm heavily thinking about translating `info ls` into nroff and distributing 
it as the Dutch manpage for ls. 

>> People new to Unix are more likely to use man than they are to use
>> info. (?)
>Why?  I'd understand if you said they are more likely to look for an HTML 
>version of the docs, but man pages? that's anathema to anyone who is 
>keyboard- and command-line-challenged ;-).

huh? who's that ;-)
by the way: on sourceforge a new project started to write a man2xml
converter...