Re: Revisiting "man files to text editor": info pages
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:51:34PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:01:10PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> > After trying different options, the nicest looking version is obtained
> > by processing the source texinfo file:
> > 1. get the source from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/
> > 2. unpack it, dive into doc directory
> > 3. texi2dvi coreutils.texi
>
> Cool.
>
> But I just realized that you can also get the texinfo sources from
> the GNU website:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/texi/coreutils.texi.tar.gz
>
> It's a 190k download instead of a 3 meg one. (Of course I have a high
> speed connection, but still...)
>
> Bijan
Me too (rr at cfl). The problem is that the one indicated by you for
download is about 1 year older. This was the major reason that
prompted me to ask.
Thanks.
Reply to: