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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 2019 08:39:14 +0000
From:      "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where is the info viewer?
References:  <20190910070033.GA29721@admin.sibptus.ru> <20190910071826.GA28277@mail.bsd4all.net>

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> 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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