this guidance on man pages for the GNU project is wild gnu.org/prep/standards/html_no

(they seem to think everyone should use info pages instead, which I personally have never used despite having used GNU tools for 20 years)

@b0rk I use the Texinfo manuals extensively, especially the ones for GNU Make, Emacs, and Autoconf. Am I the only one?

@krans In 20+ years, I have only used the one for wget, and I was about to ask if there were any others! But then again, I'm not a systems dev, so I may not be the target audience.

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@jernej__s @pablobm @krans Yes, and a pdf, html and what not all generated from the same input. gnu.org/software/wget/manual/

Something people seem to miss, "info" is only one format that are generated from the same set of source files.

The whole thread seems quite toxic...

@amszmidt @pablobm @krans I never noticed the info file, and I've been compiling wget for Windows for over a decade.

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