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

Hi Gavin,

On 1/10/23 21:37, Gavin Smith wrote:
> 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.

I don't have that documentation available.  In which package is it?

$ apt-file find printf | grep -e info -e texi | grep -v gnulib
gettext: /usr/share/info/autosprintf.info.gz
libppx-custom-printf-ocaml-dev: 
/var/lib/ocaml/lintian/libppx-custom-printf-ocaml-dev.info


Thanks,

Alex

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