Re: uniq -c output

[Christopher Ness]

Bob,

Thanks for your in depth answers.  I've fixed up my script for reporting
people who abuse my SMTP server and of course I've made it publicly
available.

Nothing too fancy, just depends on Postfix's log files and some simple
GNU programs.

You can find a link at the top of this page:
http://mesmail.mcmaster.ca/

Cheers,
Chris

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 20:38, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Christopher Ness wrote:
> > There it is.  I never thought the man pages would be crippled WRT info. 
> > Which help system is prefered for GNU?
> 
> Neither should be "crippled" with respect to the other.  GNU coding
> standards prefer documentation in info format.  However other
> standards require man pages.  I think both will be around for a long
> time.  Also the programs itself contains online help with the --help
> option.  That is joined to the program and should not be out of date
> with respect to it.  The --help is a third source of information.
> 
> My personal preference is that the man pages make great quick
> references.  But man pages are not as good at being a user manual.
> The info pages make better user manuals.  Therefore I like to see them
> them "tuned" to their own best strengths.
> 
> In order to accomodate both the user manual is the info documentation.
> The man pages are generated from the --help output automatically using
> 'help2man'.  That reduces the programmer work overhead considerably.
> Now the program, the --help, and the man pages are all in sync
> automatically.  It is the info pages which still must be written the
> old fashioned way.  But they are the most flexible way to create user
> manuals.
> 
> More recently there has been a movement to convert to docbook format
> documentation.  This has been met with mixed responses.  Time will
> tell how docbook turns out.  I think it is a little heavy and more
> tedious to use than texinfo but I do not have enough experience with
> docbook yet.
> 
> Bob
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