Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2013, 15:23:28 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:09 PM, K?i?tof ?elechovski > > <giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl> wrote: > > #. Tag: para > > > > #: index.docbook:22 > > #, fuzzy, no-c-format > > msgid "" > > "Info is a type of documentation. The documents are in a file format > > called > > " > > "texinfo, and can be read on the command line with the <ulink > > url=\"info:/info" > > "\"><command>info</command></ulink> program." > > What docbook is this in? > > > No they are not, texinfo is a different format. > > Yeah, texinfo is the source format, isn't it? Looks like this > (wherever it is ;-) isn't the only place we confuse this, > khelpcenter's docbook uses this term too. > > > Info documents are text files logically divided into pages with a > > hierarchical structure and cross-references. They are typically produced > > by > > a processor named makeinfo. They can be viewed in the teletype <ulink > > url=\"info:/info" > > "\"><command>info</command></ulink> program. > > Depending on where this is this might be a bit too technical.
+1 > Users just want to RTFM, not learn the various intricacies of the nine > million different documentation formats used on UNIX-like systems. > ;-) > > More useful information would be what *sort* of information lives in > info documentation. The answer is pretty much anything made by GNU, > right? Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info_(Unix) has a nice explanation of "Info" -- Burkhard L?ck
