From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 5 14:24:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3651065679 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [IPv6:2001:470:a80a:1:21f:d0ff:fe22:b8a8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3F68FC1B for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2809F22631 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:24:28 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6qXNJow23Sgl for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:24:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from athena.localnet (athena.daycos.com [IPv6:2001:470:c054:1:221:9bff:fe00:de3f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A28A622629 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:24:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:24:23 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090604210006.GA33278@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com> Subject: Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:24:29 -0000 On Thursday 04 June 2009 04:17:56 pm Chris Rees wrote: > Info is horrible to use as a quick reference, because as Polytropon > said earlier, you can't just dive in to get something specific. The > info is split into (arbitrary????) sections, through which you have to > tread, and jump around hyperlinks all over. In fairness, a good info browser (eg Emacs) makes searching in an info doc trivially easy. I think the biggest problem is that /usr/bin/info is horrid and people lump their impression of it onto their impression of info docs as a whole. -- Kirk Strauser