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Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

From Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?
Date 2018-10-27 11:10 +0200
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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.

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 can't summon an example of this frustrating insect offhand.

Jesus. Shoot me.

-- 
"Now she understood that Anna could not have been in lilac, and that her charm
was just that she always stood out against her attire, that her dress could
never be noticeable on her." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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Online copies of textinfo content available? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-26 16:50 +0200
  Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-26 17:10 +0200
  Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 17:10 +0200
  Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-26 17:50 +0200
  Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-26 19:30 +0200
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-26 20:20 +0200
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 10:20 +0200
        Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-29 17:00 +0100
          Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-11-02 05:00 +0100
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-10-29 07:30 +0100
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-26 20:20 +0200
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-26 20:30 +0200
        Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-26 22:00 +0200
          Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 00:50 +0200
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-10-29 07:30 +0100
  Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2018-10-26 22:20 +0200
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-26 22:20 +0200
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2018-10-26 22:30 +0200
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-10-26 22:30 +0200
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-26 23:50 +0200
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-27 00:10 +0200
        Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-27 00:20 +0200
          Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-27 03:40 +0200
            Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-27 11:10 +0200
              Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-27 15:30 +0200
        Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-10-27 01:10 +0200
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-10-29 07:40 +0100
        Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-29 16:30 +0100
          Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-29 21:20 +0100
          Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-29 21:30 +0100
            Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-29 22:00 +0100
              Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-29 22:20 +0100
            Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-30 09:40 +0100

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