runtime/doc/kioslave/info/index.docbook

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   8 <article lang="&language;" id="info">
   9 <title>Info</title>
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  11 <authorgroup>
  12 <author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
  13 <author>
  14   <firstname>Nicolas</firstname>
  15   <surname>Goutte</surname>
  16   <email>goutte@kde.org</email>
  17 </author>
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  21
  22 <para>Info is a type of documentation.  The documents are in a file
  23 format called texinfo, and can be read on the command line with the
  24 <command>info</command> program.</para>
  25
  26 <para>The Info ioslave allows you to read the info pages installed on
  27 your system, from within &konqueror;.  You can use it very easily:</para>
  28
  29 <screen><userinput><command>info:</command><replaceable>gcc</replaceable></userinput></screen>
  30
  31 <para>This would show you the top level node of the Info documentation
  32 for the &gcc; compiler.</para>
  33
  34 <para>Info is a &GNU; replacement for
  35 <command>man</command>, but is not widely used outside of
  36 &GNU; software.</para>
  37
  38 <para>You can quite easily browse the info documentation you have
  39 installed from within the &khelpcenter; application, or you can use the
  40 info ioslave directly from within both &konqueror; and the
  41 mini-cli.</para>
  42
  43 </article>