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Thanks!

Jim.
Chris Ricker wrote:

>On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Alexander Barton wrote:
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>>The GNU folks are fine and all, in their own way. :-) But they refuse to 
>>document their tools in the man pages.  (Where the one God whose name is 
>>Allah intended them to be.)  Instead, they insist on placing all the 
>>documentation for their tools (like /bin/tar) in info.  (Use "ESC ESC [ 
>>B" to scoll down one line.  Why don't the hjkl keys do what I expect?) 
>>The man pages are then left incomplete and out of date usually with a 
>>note at the bottom to see info for the real docs.  Quoth: "...you should 
>>run info and read the tar info pages, or use the info mode in emacs." 
>>Info mode in _EMACS_!?  Aiee!  Clearly this is the work of the hands of 
>>Satan.
>>    
>>
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>one word: pinfo
>
>info pages are actually nice, it's the viewer you're using to read them 
>that's the problem ;-)
>
>later,
>chris
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