Hi,
I find pinfo to be a very nice console mode info viewer. Pinfo can be found
at:
http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~pborys/stable-version/pinfo-0.6.0.tar.gz
Venkatesh
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Tony Nugent wrote:
>
> >Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:10:43 +1000
> >From: Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: RedHat Development Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: basename()?
> >
> >On Sat Aug 19 2000 at 10:35, "Joseph Malicki" wrote:
> >
> >> glibc is documented in info, not manpages. the manpages there are just
> >> an incomplete and in some cases inaccurate collection, werent they from
> >> libc5 or something? The wonders of GNU software.......
> >
> >I **HATE** info, it is the most un-intuiative utility I've ever come
> >across. Ok, I've never taken to emacs (strange methinks, especially
> >after 9 years of using unix), so that's probably not suprising.
>
> Agreed, however "info" is two things. Documentation, and a UI
> interface into that documentation. The "info" text mode program
> is a crappy interface which I hate as much as the next guy. It
> is not however the only interface. I use KDE HELP to read info
> mostly and it works like web pages. Thus the info is very
> useful, just not the program itself.
>
>
> >I wish there was a utility available (as standard issue) that turned
> >info pages into (good) man pages. Or perhaps better still, a way to
> >get man itself to do it...
>
> Or just use KDE HELP, or one of the other programs that has a
> non-braindead interface to texinfo documentation. I know of no
> info2man processors but info2html apps certainly exist and are
> VERY useful.
>
> Do a search on freshmeat and see if anything is there.
>
>
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