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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>
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</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>
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