On Thu, 11 May 2006, Adrian Maier wrote:
On 5/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Overview
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Windowze has 2 help system versions ("*.hlp" files and "*.chm" files).
Un*x based systems have "man" (doesn't have links, discarted, sorry).
I heard that *Linux (GNU/Linux, and others) doesn't have one.
The man pages are not the only help format in Unix.
In Linux/Unix there are also the "info pages" , which do support links.
Some info pages also have an index ( i'm not sure when this index is
generated) .
The program is called 'info' . Info can be used to acces the regular man
pages, too. (plus you can go to the related items in SEE ALSO by simply
going on the item and pressing enter).
By googling for more info about info, i've found that Info is in fact
the "official
documentation format of the GNU project" :
http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
Info might be really interesting : it is possible to generate several
help formats
from a single source : html, pdf, info, dvi, xml .
This info is generated from texinfo, a variant of TeX/LaTeX.
Michael.
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