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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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