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From: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: info vs. man
Date: 31 Jul 1995 06:51:22 GMT
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Dan Nelson (dnelson@xnet.com) wrote:
> I like the hypertext part of it, but I can't stand the reader (info). 
> Cursor keys don't even work.  I'd use it if up/down/pgup/pgdn/tab/backtab
> were supported.

Grab the info directory from a -current mirror
(.../FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/info). At least
it should support the arrow keys and PgUp/PgDn now.

tg