Sure, I understand that. But, for the most part, the "info" files are 
human readable. If you *REALLY* want to use Skim to read the info file, 
then use Skim as a glorified "less."

--Ted

Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> Right. Well, it does work to some extent, but does not give what you  
> want. An .info file is not the literal text you see, but some format  
> that is displayed by the info command. And 'info' also does not have  
> an option to output pdf or something AFAIK.
> 
> Christiaan
> 
> On 15 Mar 2008, at 5:14 PM, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> 
>>> texi2pdf `info -w tar` | open -f -a Skim
>> So,
>>
>> cat `info -w tar` | enscript -p - | open -f -a Skim
>>
>> isn't acceptable, right?
>>
>> --Ted
>>
>>
>>> Christiaan
>>>
>>>>> On 3/14/08 5:46 PM, "Bill Mohler" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm looking up information on the "tar" command in Unix, and the  
>>>>>> end
>>>>>> of the man page says that a much more current manual should  
>>>>>> exist in
>>>>>> the format of a Texinfo file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I tried "info -t tar | open -f -a Skim" to see if I could  
>>>>>> read in
>>>>>> Skim as I have been doing with man files.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> First I got an error about  -t.
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> Anyone willing to coach me here?  I think I'm getting close ;)
>>>>> Just open the file in TextEdit and then make a PDF.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the big?
>>>>>
>>>>>   info tar | open -f -a TextEdit
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Gary
>>>>>
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