Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 20/11/13 04:45, Richard Owlett wrote: Linux-Fan wrote: On 11/19/2013 03:20 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: If needing to read a "man page", http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi exists. Is there an equivalent site to retrieve what would be displayed by the info command.

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/13 04:45, Richard Owlett wrote: > Linux-Fan wrote: >> On 11/19/2013 03:20 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> If needing to read a "man page", >>> http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi exists. >>> Is there an equivalent site to retrieve what would be displayed by the >>> info command. >>> {

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 nov 13, 17:17:45, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >>> If needing to read a "man page", http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi >>> exists. >>> Is there an equivalent site to retrieve w

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread Brian
On Tue 19 Nov 2013 at 12:29:26 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Neal Murphy writes: > > Sometimes I think it should be a bug to have a useless man page in > > place. > > It is. Sometimes filing a bug report with a correct man page > attached will get action. Don't bother filing such a report against

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread John Hasler
Neal Murphy writes: > Sometimes I think it should be a bug to have a useless man page in > place. It is. Sometimes filing a bug report with a correct man page attached will get action. Don't bother filing such a report against any of the numerous GUI programs that lack either man or info pages,

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:45:53 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > Linux-Fan wrote: > > Also, you can google "GNU Info Pages online" without quotes. I just > > found http://linux.about.com/od/lts_guide/a/gdelts69t02.htm by entering > > that query which also suggests the first page I have mentioned.

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread Richard Owlett
Linux-Fan wrote: On 11/19/2013 03:20 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: If needing to read a "man page", http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi exists. Is there an equivalent site to retrieve what would be displayed by the info command. { A Linux machine is not always available ;} TIA Most program

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 19 nov 13, 17:17:45, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > If needing to read a "man page", http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi > > exists. > > Is there an equivalent site to retrieve what would be displayed by the info > > command. > > You sh

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > If needing to read a "man page", http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi > exists. > Is there an equivalent site to retrieve what would be displayed by the info > command. You shouldn't need the info pages because it's a bug for a Debi

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread Linux-Fan
On 11/19/2013 03:20 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > If needing to read a "man page", > http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi exists. > Is there an equivalent site to retrieve what would be displayed by the > info command. > { A Linux machine is not always available ;} > > TIA Most programs which