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H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > If you regard 'info' files as documentation, I fully disagree. One has to be > an emacs user to be able to read that, and even then, finding the info you > need takes too much time. man or pod, all info is ready for immediate > trashcanning and can IMHO *never* be marked good documentation. If you ask me, > it cannot be marked documentation at all. I wholeheartedly agree with this intolerant statement. Also, I've often remarked that it's very hard to find specific info in the GNU docs : changes and history ? no. Deviations from the standard ? nope. Portability issues ? none. Edge cases ? surely you jest. The perl docs aren't so bad after all.