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Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere"

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere"
Date 2017-04-19 16:40 +0200
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On Wed 19 Apr 2017 at 08:59:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

> 2. There are many commands whose man pages point to using the "info"
> command. I personally find that format more annoying than useful. I would
> prefer to access the TeXInfo formatted document and convert it locally to
> desired format - usually HTML.

Why waste time and effort? Use pinfo.

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Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-04-19 16:10 +0200
  Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere" Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-04-19 16:30 +0200
  Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-04-19 16:40 +0200
  Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere" Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-04-19 16:40 +0200
  Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere" Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-04-19 16:50 +0200
  Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere" Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> - 2017-04-19 17:20 +0200
  Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere" David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-04-19 18:10 +0200
  Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere" davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-04-19 20:40 +0200

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