<article lang="&language;" id="info">
<title
>Info</title>
<articleinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>Conversion to British English</contrib
></othercredit
> 
</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
>gcc</userinput
></screen>

<para
>This would show you the top level node of the Info documentation for the <command
>gcc</command
> compiler.</para>

<para
>Info is a <acronym
>GNU</acronym
> replacement for <command
>man</command
>, but is not widely used outside of <acronym
>GNU</acronym
> 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>