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 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 have

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net 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

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 rowl...@cloud85.net 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 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 programs

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. HTH

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 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 any

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

2013-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 19 nov 13, 17:17:45, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: If needing to read a man page, http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi exists. Is there an

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. { A Linux machine is