Where is the info viewer?
Thomas Mueller
mueller6722 at twc.com
Tue Sep 10 08:42:30 UTC 2019
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 02:00:33PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > Dear Colleagues,
> > I've noticed that the info utility has disappeared from the recent
> > versions of FreeBSD.
> > There are a lot of info files in /usr/local/share/info/, what should I
> > read them with other than less ?
> >From /usr/src/UPDATING:
20150102:
> The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed.
> To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports.
> Herbert
Better than the user-unfriendly GNU info is pinfo, in FreeBSD ports category misc.
I install and use pinfo in both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Tom
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