On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:24:25PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-11-27 at 11:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >>> And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both. > > > [help and man] > > >> There's also 'info foo', which for some values of foo will be more > >> helpful than either of the above, for others will provide exactly > >> the same information through a different interface, and for others > >> will provide no information at all. > > > > The nice thing about info is that it /actually/ falls back to the > > man page when no info page is available. So it is a common front-end > > of sorts for both. > > ...huh. So it does, apparently. > > Even at this point I still live and learn. I always thought it was just > that a few particular packages had had their man pages blindly converted > to info format so the packager could ship documentation in both formats. > > To be honest, I think I'd kind of rather that it didn't do that... but > it's not like it's hard to recognize the converted-from-man-page > presentation and quit the viewer, when it does happen.
It tells you, though. For example, if I do "info ldd", apart from the giveaway in the heading, as you observe, the footer page says: -----Info: (*manpages*)ldd, 65 lines --Top--- So it ain't cheating, honest ;-) Cheers -- t
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