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Date:      Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:24:23 -0500
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD
Message-ID:  <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0906041417l28e56213lb5dc9c10deed6a32@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906040113270.28607@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090604210006.GA33278@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <b79ecaef0906041417l28e56213lb5dc9c10deed6a32@mail.gmail.com>

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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



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