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Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:24:25PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2024-11-27 at 11:59, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> > 
> >> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> >>> And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both.
> 
> > [help and man]
> 
> >> There's also 'info foo', which for some values of foo will be more 
> >> helpful than either of the above, for others will provide exactly
> >> the same information through a different interface, and for others
> >> will provide no information at all.
> > 
> > The nice thing about info is that it /actually/ falls back to the
> > man page when no info page is available. So it is a common front-end
> > of sorts for both.
> 
> ...huh. So it does, apparently.
> 
> Even at this point I still live and learn. I always thought it was just
> that a few particular packages had had their man pages blindly converted
> to info format so the packager could ship documentation in both formats.
> 
> To be honest, I think I'd kind of rather that it didn't do that... but
> it's not like it's hard to recognize the converted-from-man-page
> presentation and quit the viewer, when it does happen.

It tells you, though. For example, if I do "info ldd", apart from the
giveaway in the heading, as you observe, the footer page says:

  -----Info: (*manpages*)ldd, 65 lines --Top---

So it ain't cheating, honest ;-)

Cheers
-- 
t

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Using terminal commands - corner cases Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-11-27 12:40 +0100
  Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 13:00 +0100
    Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-11-27 14:40 +0100
      Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 14:40 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-11-27 15:50 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-11-27 15:50 +0100
      Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2024-11-27 15:20 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 15:30 +0100
          help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-11-27 16:50 +0100
            Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-11-27 17:10 +0100
              Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 18:10 +0100
            Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 18:00 +0100
              Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-11-27 18:30 +0100
                Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 18:50 +0100
              Re: help, man, etc. (was: Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-28 03:40 +0100
                Re: help, man, etc. (was: Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-28 06:40 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Yassine Chaouche <a.chaouche@algerian-radio.dz> - 2024-11-27 16:40 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-11-27 17:20 +0100
    Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-11-27 15:50 +0100
  Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-11-28 05:20 +0100
    Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-11-28 09:40 +0100
    Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-28 16:00 +0100
      Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-11-28 16:20 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2024-11-28 16:20 +0100
      Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-11-29 19:40 +0100
        Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-30 16:20 +0100
          Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-12-02 04:00 +0100
            Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-12-02 13:00 +0100
  Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases Michael Paoli <michael.paoli@berkeley.edu> - 2024-12-02 10:20 +0100

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