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<article lang="&language;" id="info">
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<title
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>Info</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author
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>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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<othercredit role="translator"
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><firstname
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>Malcolm</firstname
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><surname
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>Hunter</surname
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><affiliation
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><address
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><email
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>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
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></address
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></affiliation
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><contrib
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>Conversion to British English</contrib
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></othercredit
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>
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</authorgroup>
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</articleinfo>
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<para
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>Info is a type of documentation. The documents are in a file format called texinfo, and can be read on the command line with the <command
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>info</command
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> program.</para>
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<para
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>The Info ioslave allows you to read the info pages installed on your system, from within &konqueror;. You can use it very easily:</para>
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<screen
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><userinput
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><command
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>info:/</command
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>gcc</userinput
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></screen>
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<para
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>This would show you the top level node of the Info documentation for the <command
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>gcc</command
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> compiler.</para>
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<para
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>Info is a <acronym
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>GNU</acronym
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> replacement for <command
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>man</command
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>, but is not widely used outside of <acronym
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>GNU</acronym
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> software.</para>
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<para
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>You can quite easily browse the info documentation you have installed from within the &khelpcenter; application, or you can use the info ioslave directly from within both &konqueror; and the mini-cli.</para>
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</article>
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