From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Sep 12 00:59:00 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA907E57F9 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:59:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass Class 2 CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46TL4g4BX9z4cBY for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:58:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([94.222.27.241]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue011 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1MWzwP-1hb1Nv3D9l-00XJyQ; Thu, 12 Sep 2019 02:58:54 +0200 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 02:58:52 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Per Hedeland Cc: doug@fledge.watson.org, Polytropon , Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is the info viewer? 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They live in > /usr/local/share/info, which should be enough of an indication, but > just to make sure: > > $ ls /usr/share/info > ls: /usr/share/info: No such file or directory > $ ls /usr/local/share/info | wc -l > 78 > $ pkg which /usr/local/share/info/* | grep 'installed by package' | wc -l > 77 > $ pkg which /usr/local/share/info/* | grep -v 'installed by package' > /usr/local/share/info/dir was not found in the database > $ cat /usr/local/share/info/dir > Produced by: indexinfo 0.3.1. > > File: dir, Node: Top This is the top of the INFO tree > ... I think you have obtained this from a current FreeBSD version. Older versions still had *.info.gz files in /usr/share/info, and I may construct the following assumption: Lots of info-based documentation was part of GCC, and as this has been obsoleted by CLang/LLVM (is that the correct spelling?), the GCC info files have been removed. Other GNU-based tools also were rewritten for FreeBSD, and removed, so _if_ there are no more info files in the base system, the removal of the corresponding reader program is understandable. > Seems perfectly reasonable to me that tools to read the info files > from ports/packages are also in ports/packages, especially since there > are multiple choices. And just to add to the list: emacs (C-h i) - > which is what I personally use (since I use emacs as editor) - though > actually I often prefer 'less'.:-) It's also possible to the Midnight Commander: PF3 on a .info.gz file will make it readable (even though no highlighting as if it was a manpage). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...