info is a failed GNU experiment to replace man pages. I stated that strongly, but they've never caught on. It's too bad; GNU had a whole plan of improving Unix

info is a failed GNU experiment to replace man pages. I stated that strongly, but they've never caught on. It's too bad; GNU had a whole plan of improving Unix learnability with getopt, bash completion, info, etc. It's all sort of been useful but hasn't really changed the way people work.