Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2002/03/03/16:54:57
"Peter J. Farley III" wrote:
> At 01:29 PM 3/3/02 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
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> >
> >Did you ever try "info --apropos SUBJECT"? It's a bit slow, but
> >that's the way you are supposed to look for solutions to problems for
> >which you don't know what packages deal with them.
>
> I never used --apropos before. So I just tried it, to see if it would
> find the textutil "cut" program. I used the phrases "cutting text",
> "deleting text" and "selecting text". You are right, it is somewhat
> slow, but it also fails to find "cut" for any of those phrases:
I just tried that command and info just exits. Don't know what it
said, because I have info start up in a new window through a .pif
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