-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 Jan 2005 00:28, Richard Urwin wrote: > From time to time here people pop up and say "Wow, Konqueror understands > man pages!" That's neat, and it's a bit easier than trying to read the > page in a console window. It isn't the best way to print a man page; > "man -t subject | lpr" is much better for that, but it is easier on the > eyes. > > A long time ago, before Tim Berners-Lee invented HTTP, the GNU project > had hyper-linked documents. They were called "info" and worked in a > console window just like "man", but you navigated around them just like > a web site. Many of the GNU man pages say: > > WARNING > This man page is an extract of the documentation ... It is > updated only occasionally, because the GNU project does not use nroff. > For complete, current documentation, refer to the Info file... > > If reading a simple document under 'less' was hard, navigating a > hyper-linked document is ten times worse. It was a great relief to find > that telling Konqueror "info:make" does exactly what it says on the > tin. It turns a nightmare into a dream.
For some strange reason I can't type *anything* into a konqueror address line under 3.2.3. Is this a problem of my system, or do others have the same problem? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB3ZYEkFAvMr/nNX8RAljLAJ46MCBjc/h7f37zpdDLa8rW+UJ/VACggHcg oDela1BTS3gh/vjwXiwlaeE= =+9Wd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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