[ale] Big win for gentoo

Jim jcphil at mindspring.com
Fri Aug 30 15:23:09 EDT 2002


Both the man and the info feature work on my RedHat 7.2 system. But I'm using 
KDE 3.0.3. I wouldn't swear that the info part worked in earlier versions.

On Friday 30 August 2002 01:59 pm, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> Gentoo just did something that impressed me.  Something you may not know
> about Konqueror (the KDE browser0 is that it can browse man pages and
> info files.  entering "man:tar" or "info:tar" into the Location entry
> field should bring up the man page of info file, respectively, for tar.
>
> Well, I've been using Konqueror for a while now, and I'm sure that I
> once had a computer that they both worked on, but for the last year
> neither mandrake nor redhat has supported "info:tar" for me.  I think
> Debian did, but I won't swear to it.
>
> When KDE finished emerging on my gentoo laptop, I tried it and it
> works.  I can browse info files with Konqueror!  At long last.


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