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Reading Online Documentation

You can browse through the online documentation using either Emacs or the info documentation browser program, included in the GNUPro Toolkit. Online, the manuals are organized into nodes, corresponding to the chapters and sections of a printed book.

You can follow them in sequenceas in the printed books, or, using the hyperlinks, find the node that has the information you need. info has hot references; if one section refers to another section, you can have info take you immediately to that other section—and you can get back again easily to take up your reading where you had been. Naturally, you can also search for particular words or phrases.

The best way to get started with the online documentation system is to run the browser, info. After installing GNUPro Toolkit, you can get into info by just typing its name at your shell prompt (shown as ‘#’ by the following example)—no options or arguments are necessary.

    # info

You may need to check that info is in your shell path after you install GNUPro Toolkit. If you have problems running info, please contact your system administrator.

To learn how to use info, use the h key for a programmed instruction sequence, or Ctrl-h for a short summary of commands.

If at any time you are ready to stop using info, type q.

See GNU Online Documentation in GNUPro Advanced Topics for detailed discussion of the info program.