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Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?



Thanks -- two comments below!

On Saturday, October 27, 2018 05:04:37 AM Curt wrote:
> On 2018-10-27, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday, October 26, 2018 06:10:13 PM Brian wrote:
> >> On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 18:02:39 -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> >> > 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.
> > 
> > What would you do with an example?
> 
> I just thought of a cozy place for it.

Great minds ...

> 
> whois
> info
> file
> acpi
> 
> There's also the case of the (generally succinct) man page referring you
> to the full documentation via the info page, the latter of which is
> identical to the former, a rubbing-it-in kind of "bug" by which I've
> been bitten in the past.

I remember those, also!
 
> I can't summon an example of this frustrating insect offhand.


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