redhat-talk-an_info_hater_with_a_way_to_read_info_as_man

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To: redhat-list@listman.redhat.com
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: ls operation changed
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 20:57:30 +1100

On 01:51 01 Mar 2003, Vidiot <brown@mrvideo.vidiot.com> wrote:
| >Do you know about the -d flag?  You might try ls -laGd, that
| >might get you the behavior you want. 
| 
| Yep, neither that or -L made any difference.

Well sure. -L turns _on_ the behaviour you see.

Sure you're running the real ls, and not some evil presupplied alias?
Does "/bin/ls" behave the same as "ls"?
What does the "alias" command recite?

| There must be something in my environment that is causing this then.
| But what?  The man page has no info on this.  Please don't say to use
| "info ls" to see if there is anything in there.  I HATE info.

Me too. Wrote myself a parser and integrated it with a man command
so you can page info like real man pages. See here if you like:

	http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/#s-text-info2x

The man command is here:

	http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/scripts/man

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From: Dave Ihnat <ignatz@dminet.com>
Subject: Re: ls operation changed
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 08:34:28 -0600

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 01:51:32AM -0600, Vidiot wrote:
> Please don't say to use "info ls" to see if there is anything in
> there.  I HATE info.  IMHO that is a horrible program.  It is extremely
> difficult to traverse.  It is not obvious how to get around that thing.
> Whomever designed that program had a sick sense of humor.

I agree; probably was an Emacs user, too.

Try 'pinfo', unless you hate Lynx, too.

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