<article lang="&language;" id="info"> <title>Info</title> <articleinfo> <authorgroup> <author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author> <author> <firstname>Nicolas</firstname> <surname>Goutte</surname> <email>goutte@kde.org</email> </author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> </articleinfo> <para>Info is a type of documentation. The documents are in a file format called texinfo, and can be read on the command line with the <command>info</command> program.</para> <para>The Info ioslave allows you to read the info pages installed on your system, from within &konqueror;. You can use it very easily:</para> <screen><userinput><command>info:</command><replaceable>gcc</replaceable></userinput></screen> <para>This would show you the top level node of the Info documentation for the &gcc; compiler.</para> <para>Info is a &GNU; replacement for <command>man</command>, but is not widely used outside of &GNU; software.</para> <para>You can quite easily browse the info documentation you have installed from within the &khelpcenter; application, or you can use the info ioslave directly from within both &konqueror; and the mini-cli.</para> </article>