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Top Five Open Source Packages for System Administrators | |
| Subject: | most under-used app? 'info' | |
| Date: | 2002-11-08 20:14:57 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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Seriously. I never realised how well documented GNU apps are until I got used to using 'info'. I hear there is another app called 'pinfo' (?), this read info documentation but has a differnet interface. |
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most under-used app? 'info'
2003-04-26 10:58:12 anonymous2 [View]
The reason info is so underused is because it's got such a horrid user interface. It badly needs a plain-text dumb-tty mode like VMS Help, and a batch mode like UNIX man. The former would make it a lot more usable over low grade lines and on graphic consoles in single-use mode which are often *not* well designed for screenmode work. The latter would help those of us who want a reference instead of a tutorial. -
most under-used app? 'info'
2003-05-30 12:36:00 anonymous2 [View]
for the latter try:
info grub | more
