Antonio Rodriguez([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:40:49AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:05:26AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > There was a thread a while ago about reformatting man pages for pretty > > > viewing and printing. I wonder if there are any similar tricks or > > > ideas for the info pages. I didn't want to awake that sleeping > > > thread, so I started this with a similar name. > > > > All info documentation is written in Texinfo format and then converted > > to info, using a program called makeinfo. If you get your hands on the > > Texinfo source you can run it through TeX and get dvi or PostScript output > > or run it through makeinfo and get info or html. The FSF sells printed > > copies of their manuals and they also have them online in various formats > > (html, dvi, ps, pdf, etc). > > > > If you don't feel like either getting the Texinfo sources, or downloading > > the documentation in a different format, you could always use the > > info2man package to convert the info documentation to a manpage and > > then print that. But I believe that you would get much better results > > from the Texinfo sources. > > > Well, the reason for this post is that I had tried info2man with > coreutils, and here is what I got > info2man /usr/share/info/coreutils.info.gz > info2pod: can't open /usr/share/info/coreutils.info: No such file or > directory > etc, however, the file exists. > (bug in info2man, in coreutils, or my misunderstanding?) > > I am running sid, with coreutils 5.0.91, which is much nicer > documented (personal taste) than 4.5.4 (it is the version whose > documentation can be downloaded from www.gnu.org) > > Any ideas?
Yep, gunzip /usr/share/info/coreutils.info.gz -- Any program that runs right is obsolete. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
