From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Sent: 10 November 2003 18:31
> $ grep CLEAR /etc/pinforc
> CLEAR-SCREEN-AT-EXIT=true
>
> It's amazing!
Strangely enough I had actually done 'pinfo pinfo' ...
and I tried 'pinfo -x pinfo' as a test and it didn't work. Several times.
As I just tried it again and it _did
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:34:20 -0500 (EST), Igor Pechtchanski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>While I'd recommend 'pinfo' over 'info' any day,
pinfo appears 2 behave differently than info, for instance i cant get
menu mode to work, can't get ? or h to work.
zzapper
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:41:45AM -, Hughes, Bill wrote:
> > Try pinfo. If it doesn't find an info page it'll look for a man page.
>
> Except that under rxvt pinfo leaves the data on the screen where info and
> man leave you back where you started. In a console it does what I would
> expect.
While I'd recommend 'pinfo' over 'info' any day, to be fair to 'info', it
also displays man pages if the info pages can't be found. Also, while
we're on the subject of info vs man, man pages are much better for global
search, while info is better for structured delivery of information.
FWIW, I use
Sent: 09 November 2003 21:48 From: Don Sharp
> Try pinfo. If it doesn't find an info page it'll look for a man page.
Except that under rxvt pinfo leaves the data on the screen where info and
man leave you back where you started. In a console it does what I would
expect.
So (for me) the choice is b
Try pinfo. If it doesn't find an info page it'll look for a man page.
HTH
Don Sharp
Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> zzapper wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ya All
> >
> > Is INFO just a viewer for Man Pages, or does it have it's own
> > database?
> >
> > Is INFO preferred to MAN ??
> >
> > (Sorry for hogging this N
zzapper wrote:
>
> Hi Ya All
>
> Is INFO just a viewer for Man Pages, or does it have it's own
> database?
>
> Is INFO preferred to MAN ??
>
> (Sorry for hogging this NG recently)
> zzapper
Yes, they are completely seperate. The 'info' program reads and
displays texinfo documents, which live
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