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+<article lang="&language;" id="info">
+<title>Info</title>
+<articleinfo>
+<authorgroup>
+<author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
+<author>
+ <firstname>Nicolas</firstname>
+ <surname>Goutte</surname>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+</author>
+<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
+</authorgroup>
+</articleinfo>
+
+<para>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>info</command> program.</para>
+
+<para>The Info ioslave allows you to read the info pages installed on
+your system, from within &konqueror;. You can use it very easily:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput><command>info:</command><replaceable>gcc</replaceable></userinput></screen>
+
+<para>This would show you the top level node of the Info documentation
+for the &gcc; compiler.</para>
+
+<para>Info is a &GNU; replacement for
+<command>man</command>, but is not widely used outside of
+&GNU; software.</para>
+
+<para>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>
+
+</article>