On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:15:01PM -0600, Troy.A Johnson wrote:
> Are there better viewers for info manuals?
> 
> It may be that I like LCD (lowest common 
> denominator) interfaces when I feel a lack 
> of information coming on: 
> 
> % man <the-thing-I-do-not know>

Sounds like you're confusing info files and manpages.  manpages are
written in a format called troff.  info files are written in texinfo and
compiled into an info format.  The document format isn't the only place
they differ, however.  info docs have cross-referencing markup
capabilities.  'makeinfo', the tool, can compile the texinfo source file
and output info, tex, html, and xml.  The texinfo document format is
very useful, indeed.

manpages are typically viewed with 'man' and info pages are view with
'info'.  'info' can also view manpages, but it allows you to use the
"See also" references as crossreferences.  It allows you to jump from
one manpage to another, giving it a browser aspect rather than an
exclusive command line tool.

Although console based, 'info' is far better than 'man', IMHO.  When
availble, I sometimes realias 'man' to 'info'.

If you want graphical stuff, you're talking to the wrong wookie.  There
is a pretty neat info2www CGI script, though.  Makes web browsing
through help docs fairly painless.

-- 
Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net>                 | a.k.a. ^chewie
http://www.wookimus.net/                            | s.k.a. gunnarr
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