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Indeed. The most singularly maddening thing to read in a man page is undoubtedly "The full documentation for foo is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and foo programs are properly installed at your site, the command info foo should give you access to the complete manual."


Yes, that is some next level BS. Why should I learn to use an arcane thing like info just to read a manual page, when 99% of the software on the same computer uses man? It's not just laziness. GNU software is usually good, but it has a strong hint of forcing your way onto other people, that I really dislike.




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