| Why does every man and his dog put man pages online? |
So, I know that I have a few man pages online, but then again I wrote either the code they document, or some of the generation toolchain to create them, so I think that is different. Why does every man and his dog feel that he should put man pages online? It actually makes it really hard to search for things if the first page of Google results are the same man page over and over again from sites who seem to think that they're making a contribution to the community.
Are they just doing this to grab some pagerank?
posted at: 01:28 | path: /google | permanent link to this entry
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Trent Waddington
More importantly, why is it that no-one (or their dog) puts manuals that are written in some hideous GNU format online. If you want to read the manual for many applications you have to fire up some weird book viewer from the command line where you have to push 'j' to move to the next page and quit the viewer and start over if you want to go back.