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Re: "info foo" should be "info coreutils foo" in man page
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: "info foo" should be "info coreutils foo" in man page |
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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:56:08 +0200 |
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Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> writes:
> The man pages wisely direct the reader to the info documentation, but
> since coreutils's documentation is now in one big info file, "info cat",
> for example, doesn't work (it gives me the man page again on my system);
> you have to say "info coreutils cat".
Worksforme. The dir file contains, eg.
* cat: (coreutils)cat invocation. Concatenate and write files.
which comes directly from the coreutils info file (@direntry) and is
copied there by install-info.
Andreas.
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