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Re: info info; man info (documentation about info)


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: info info; man info (documentation about info)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 20:37:08 +0000

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 09:14:35PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> I'm curious about how away from man(7) pages that hypothetical GNU OS is.
> Would you use info pages for libc functions?
> 
> So far, I tried to find printf(3) with info(1), but `info printf` brings me
> to the documentation for printf(1).  How can I search for a libc function
> printf()?

Yes, I use the Info glibc manual all the time.  I would look up the
documentation of printf by running "info libc printf".  This exact
example is in the info-stnd manual, in the Invoking Info node.



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