On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 18:02:39 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, October 26, 2018 05:39:55 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 15:13:20 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > > Richard Owlett wrote on 10/26/18 9:41 AM: > > > > Many man pages end with: > > > >> The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo > > > >> manual. If the info > and XYZ programs are properly > > > >> installed at your site, the command > > > >> > > > >> info XYZ > > > >> > > > >> should give you access to the complete manual. > > > > > > > > I have problems with that. > > > > 1. I don't want to install unneeded packages just to find > > > > out whether or > > > > not the package might be useful. > > > > 2. The info output has an annoying format. A browser > > > > acceptable format > > > > {plain text fine -- HTML *NOT* needed} is MUCH more > > > > functional. > > > > > > I agree, and I have found a lot of info "complete manual"s > > > to be exactly like the man page! > > > > Please give an example. > > I'm not the OP, and I don't have an example at hand, but I can vouch for the > same thing, man pages and info containing the same information, modulo > looking > a little different. > > 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. -- Brian.