On 10/28/18 6:09 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/27/2018 02:29 PM, King Beowulf wrote: >> On 10/26/18 8:48 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> [snip] >> Also check your local drive. Depending on how XYZ was packaged to >> install onto you linux disribution, you should find documentation under >> >> /usr/doc/XYZ > > Such path(s) do not exist on my machine.
Ack. Another reason I do not use your distro. No offense. There are usually either HTML or text or both documenation files shipped with source archives. A binary packager that just tosses them... > > Following nested Gnu links suggests there exists something referred to > as "INFOPATH" *BUT* no hint how to retrieve it. < *ARGHHHHH* > > > if 'echo $INFOPATH' is empty, ah well, the default path is then used. All the documentation INFO files are usually here: /usr/share/info which is a usually a symlink to /usr/info. You could write a shell script to dump them all as plain text to a fat32 (vfat) formatted USB drive and then read them on any PC device. If the infopage you want is not there because the application package was not installed, well, then you need to read the documentation on the developer web site in whatever format they decide to provide. -Ed
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