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 File: *manpages*, Node: xpdf, Up: (dir) xpdf(1) xpdf(1) NAME xpdf - Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer for X (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS xpdf [options] [PDF-file [page | +dest]] DESCRIPTION Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. ... -----Info: (*manpages*)xpdf, 781 lines --Top-------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Info version 4.13. Type h for help, m for menu item.