info2man
info2man converts GNU info files to pod or -man formats. GNU info can be a pain as it demands its own special pager, it's a binary format, it's cruder than HTML and less documented, and most GNU- authored manual entries basically say "we like info so we don't maintain this manual entry, thus it is probably wrong". info2man thus converts info files so that they can be read by ordinary tools.
| Tags | Utilities Text Processing Filters |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Freeware |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | Unix Shell Perl |
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Recent commentsRe: Not binary
They use \037 as a delimiter. Last I looked that wasn't a text character.
Not binary
Info pages are not binary. They're far more readable than man pages if you're stuck without a viewer.
Re: Excellent idea
Too bad most, if not all GNU
applications now only include info files
or outdated man pages.
Yeah. I actually wrote these tools to use in my own "man"
command so that I can say "man info-topic" much like any
other man entry.
BTW, GNU Binutils
now uses a script called texi2pod.pl and
pod2man.
Yep - my man command uses pod2man | nroff to produce
the stuff to page after conversion with info2pod.
Excellent idea
Too bad most, if not all GNU applications now only include info files or outdated man pages. BTW, GNU Binutils now uses a script called texi2pod.pl and pod2man.