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| From | David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? |
| Date | 2018-10-29 16:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <wOhEl-3Uv-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Mon 29 Oct 2018 at 17:39:13 (+1100), Erik Christiansen wrote: > 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 To be fair, the first line quoted here should be split in two and commented on separately. "I agree" was agreeing with the complaint of having to install extra packages (though it wasn't made clear whether this was just info/pinfo or foo-doc packages). OTOH the second part, identical man and info pages, seems an unjustifiable criticism to me. Why should info-preferers be deprived of reading documentation in their format. The whole point of formats like Texinfo is that they can generate several formats from a single master document. What Brian asked for is an example of a man page that ends with "The full documentation for foo is maintained as a Texinfo manual" but the info foo output has no more information than man foo. If you are determined to find such an example, $ zgrep 'maintained as a' /usr/share/man/man[0-9]/*z | less might be a good place to start hunting. Cheers, David.
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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
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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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