info (was Re: [Techtalk] List help)

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 04:27:48PM -0700, Kai MacTane wrote:
> (That GNU tar one recently was an interesting exception -- I *hate* GNU's 
> "info", and often forget that it even exists. I've also gotten out of the 
> habit of using it, because 90% of the time, the info file seems to have no 
> more information than the man page. Looks like tar is an exception.)

I dislike "info" also, because I find it so hard to navigate the darn
thing.  Enter "pinfo" which is an "info" reader which has a lynx-like
interface, and I find it much easier to use than bare info.

Kathryn Andersen
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