Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?
On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 18:02:39 -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, October 26, 2018 05:39:55 PM Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 15:13:20 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> > > Richard Owlett wrote on 10/26/18 9:41 AM:
> > > > Many man pages end with:
> > > >> The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo
> > > >> manual. If the info > and XYZ programs are properly
> > > >> installed at your site, the command
> > > >>
> > > >> info XYZ
> > > >>
> > > >> should give you access to the complete manual.
> > > >
> > > > I have problems with that.
> > > > 1. I don't want to install unneeded packages just to find
> > > > out whether or
> > > > not the package might be useful.
> > > > 2. The info output has an annoying format. A browser
> > > > acceptable format
> > > > {plain text fine -- HTML *NOT* needed} is MUCH more
> > > > functional.
> > >
> > > I agree, and I have found a lot of info "complete manual"s
> > > to be exactly like the man page!
> >
> > Please give an example.
>
> I'm not the OP, and I don't have an example at hand, but I can vouch for the
> same thing, man pages and info containing the same information, modulo looking
> a little different.
>
> It's probably been 15 years since I bothered looking at an info page -- maybe
> there are no more duplicate man and info pages -- but I don't believe that.
You can vouch for whatever you want. Without an example it is worthless.
--
Brian.
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