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Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?
Date 2018-10-29 22:00 +0100
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On Mon 29 Oct 2018 at 16:27:13 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:20:30AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This used to be more of a problem because dpkg provided an install-info that
> couldn't parse the info header used in newer versions of texinfo.  This was
> obviously a bug but hung around for a while before it was solved. E.g., in
> etch the ls man page would point people to the ls info page, but since
> install-info didn't parse the index properly, "info ls" couldn't find any ls
> info and fell back to displaying the ls man page. It was possible to run
> "info coreutils ls", and the coreutils man page tried that later on. This
> failed in other cases, which led to the current (awkward) formulation in
> which the ls man page references "info '(coreutils) ls invocation'".
> Eventually, dpkg's install-info was replaced by the actual texinfo
> install-info, so a simple "info ls" also works again.
> 
> TL;DR: man pages referencing info pages which are just man pages shouldn't
> be a thing anymore.

Does 'info make' giving a man page fit your explanation?

-- 
Brian.

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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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