Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?
On 26.10.18 22:39, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 15:13:20 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> > I agree, and I have found a lot of info "complete manual"s
> > to be exactly like the man page!
>
> Please give an example.
Anyone who has tried info a number of times, in the hope of finding a
bit more information than the manpage provides, will have experienced
the info fudge, I submit. Here's the first which I recalled:
$ info xpdf
File: *manpages*, Node: xpdf, Up: (dir)
xpdf(1) xpdf(1)
NAME
xpdf - Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer for X (version 3.03)
SYNOPSIS
xpdf [options] [PDF-file [page | +dest]]
DESCRIPTION
Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are
also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's
PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and
OS/2.
...
-----Info: (*manpages*)xpdf, 781 lines --Top--------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to Info version 4.13. Type h for help, m for menu item.
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