On Wednesday, 24 בSeptember 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Oron Peled wrote: > > > > You was probably missled by the man page packaged by Debian (upstream > > autotools have only info pages). > > > > As I said, run: > > info libtool dlopen building > > And it will bring you right to the page. > > > > > I did. It gave me the man page inside the "info" browser (which I can't > stand).
I know. Debian has a good policy of having man page for every program. However, they screw up (IMO) by not providing the info page supplied by the upstream. The result of their policy is omission of important documentation (for complex programs, the man page is a poor substitute). About the dreaded info command... I normally read info pages in konqi (I'm a KDE fanboy ;-) and there are multitude of other readers (yelp in GNOME, emacs, pinfo, etc.) However, with the original info I can send you a command line that would lead directly to the desired page. For example: info info expert cross-refs help Would navigate you directly to the wanted location (ok, URI would be clearly a better scheme, but this system was created some 6 years before HTML, and we obviously don't want HTML docs -- do we?) Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
