On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:56:44 +0200, Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2010/8/30 Alex von Gluck <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> One final argument for including man: >> >> alex@HOUXX:~$ ls -alh /usr/bin/man >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 161K 2010-03-02 04:31 /usr/bin/man > > But it doesn't even support images, and sometimes it is good to force > documentation to move to newer formats that support images, audio, > video, interaction and other things that users expect these days. > > If you ask me it is time to make that move. >Why do you need images, audio, and video to document text-based >applications? You definitely would not want to type man and get images and audio. What Alex is describing is a media rich wiki environment, something made and displayed with HTML. I see man and wiki as both cool but separate domains. I would be happy if man had only a list of system calls, parameters, and which libs needed to link them. The size of man + man pages would be fairly small. Man would be used mostly be developers for quick lookups. This kind of developer knowledge would be used for developers, who are more experienced, and do not need the rich media. - Andrew