Small and efficient viewer for NFO, DIZ, and other ASCII art files. Associates file extensions so that you only need to double click on the file. Only for Windows at the moment.
A system like man but providing more information about GNU programs, like emacs. Run info to try it.
This command retrieves the "info" file for a list. The info file is a short text description of the list. It usually contains the list's charter or other information about its purpose, as well as instructions on how to unsubscribe and/or contact the list's maintainer. If you have the list configuration set to include the "Date in Info", then Majordomo will insert the current date and time at the top of the info file for you, each time you update it. This command may be made made private so only list members can use it.
garnered from more mailing lists
An INFO file provides information about the files contained within a fileset. This information includes type, mode, ownership, checksum, size, and pathname attributes. INFO files exist in the depot catalog and the Installed Products Database to described the files contained in each existing fileset.
a medical mailing list provider, as part of our many medical marketing products and services that include doctor databases
Information Network for Ontario. A resource sharing network for Ontario public libraries. Incorporates a Web-based database which lists the holdings of libraries from across the province and an interlibrary loan system. The electronic database was originally designed as a CD-ROM product but now is available via the Internet from the Ontario Library Service Web site through software, from Fretwell-Downing, called VDX.
Info is the hypertext format used by the GNU project for writing documentation.
list The info command returns the info file for list. Not all lists have public info files.
A form of hypertext help page which can be read from within Emacs or by using the info command. These pages can also be printed. Info pages are created with TeXinfo.
GNU/Linux and then ported to other Unix-like operating systems. It is a kind of hypertextual, multipage documentation and help viewer working on a terminal, so no GUI is needed; info processes info files, which are Texinfo formatted files, and presents the documentation as a tree, with simple commands to traverse the tree and to follow cross references.