| This is the directory file `dir' a.k.a. `DIR', which contains the |
| topmost node of the Info hierarchy. This file is merely made available |
| for your hacking pleasure, not official or standard in any way. |
| If it doesn't make sense to you, or you don't like it, ignore it. |
| |
| $Id: dir-example,v 1.1 1997/08/21 22:57:52 jason Exp $ |
| |
| File: dir Node: Top This is the top of the INFO tree. |
| |
| This node gives a menu of the major topics accessible through Info. |
| |
| `q' quits; |
| `?' lists all Info commands; |
| `h' starts the Info tutorial; |
| `mTexinfo RET' visits the Texinfo manual, etc. |
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| * Menu: |
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| GNU packages |
| * Bash: (bash). Bourne again shell. |
| * Cpio: (cpio). Cpio archiver. |
| * DC: (dc). Postfix arbitrary expression calculator. |
| * Diff: (diff). Comparing and merging programs. |
| * Ed: (ed). Line editor. |
| * Emacs: (emacs). Extensible self-documenting text editor. |
| * File utilities: (fileutils). GNU file utilities. |
| * Finding files: (find). Operating on files matching certain criteria. |
| * Font utilities: (fontu). Programs for font manipulation. |
| * Gawk: (gawk). A text processing and scanning language. |
| * Gzip: (gzip). General (de)compression. |
| * Identifier DB: (id-utils). Identifier database utilities. |
| * Ispell: (ispell). Interactive spelling corrector. |
| * M4: (m4). Macro processor. |
| * Make: (make). Remake files automatically. |
| * Ptx: (ptx). Permuted index generator. |
| * Shar: (sharutils). Shell archiver, uudecode/uuencode. |
| * Shell utilities: (sh-utils). GNU shell utilities. |
| * Tar: (tar). ``Tape'' archiver. |
| * Text utilities: (textutils). GNU text utilities. |
| * Time: (time). Measuring program resource usage. |
| * UUCP: (uucp). Copying between machines, offline. |
| * Wdiff: (wdiff). Word-by-word comparison. |
| |
| GNU programming tools |
| * As: (as). Assembler. |
| * Binutils: (binutils). ar/copy/objdump/nm/size/strip/ranlib. |
| * Bison: (bison). LALR(1) parser generator. |
| * CPP: (cpp). C preprocessor. |
| * CVS: (cvs). Concurrent versions system for source control. |
| * DejaGnu: (dejagnu). Testing framework. |
| * Flex: (flex). A fast scanner generator. |
| * Gasp: (gasp). GNU Assembler preprocessor. |
| * Libtool: (libtool). Generic library support script. |
| * GCC: (gcc). C compiler. |
| * GDB: (gdb). Source-level debugger for C and C++. |
| * Gperf: (gperf). Perfect hash function generator. |
| * Gprof: (gprof). Profiler. |
| * Indent: (indent). Prettyprinter for programs. |
| * Ld: (ld). Linker. |
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| Texinfo documentation system |
| * Info: (info). Documentation browsing system. |
| * Texinfo: (texinfo). The GNU documentation format. |
| * install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info. Updating info/dir entries. |
| * texi2dvi: (texinfo)Format with texi2dvi. Printing Texinfo documentation. |
| * texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex. Sorting Texinfo index files. |
| * info program: (info-stnd). Standalone Info-reading program. |
| * makeinfo: (makeinfo). Convert Texinfo source to Info or plain ASCII. |
| |
| GNU Emacs Lisp |
| * Elisp: (elisp). GNU Emacs Lisp reference manual. |
| * Intro Elisp: (emacs-lisp-intro). Introduction to Elisp programming. |
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| * Calc: (calc). Calculator and more. |
| * CC-mode: (ccmode). Editing C, C++, and Objective C. |
| * Common Lisp: (cl). Partial Common Lisp support for Emacs Lisp. |
| * Dired-x: (dired-x). Extra directory editor features. |
| * Edebug: (edebug). Source-level debugger for Emacs Lisp. |
| * Ediff: (ediff). Comprehensive visual interface to diff & patch. |
| * EDB: (edb). Database for Emacs. |
| * Forms: (forms). Fill-in-the-form data entry. |
| * Gmhist: (gmhist). Generic minibuffer history. |
| * GNUS: (gnus). Netnews reading and posting. |
| * Mailcrypt: (mailcrypt). Use PGP in Emacs. |
| * MH-E: (mh-e). Emacs interface to the MH mail system. |
| * PCL-CVS: (pcl-cvs). Emacs front end to CVS. |
| * Supercite: (sc). Supercite for including other people's words. |
| * VIP: (vip). vi emulation. |
| * VIPER: (viper). The new VI-emulation mode in Emacs-19.29. |
| * VM: (vm). Mail reader. |
| * W3: (w3). WWW browser. |
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| GNU admin |
| * Autoconf: (autoconf). Automatic generation of package configuration. |
| * Automake: (automake). Making Makefile.in's. |
| * Configure: (configure). Cygnus configure. |
| * Gettext: (gettext). Internationalization. |
| * Gnats: (gnats). Cygnus bug tracking system. |
| * Maintaining: (maintain). Maintaining GNU software. |
| * Remsync: (remsync). Remote synchronization of directory trees. |
| * Send PR: (send-pr). Cygnus bug reporting for Gnats. |
| * Source config: (cfg-paper). Some theory on configuring source packages. |
| * Standards: (standards). GNU coding standards. |
| |
| GNU libraries |
| * Annotate: (annotate). High-level GDB to GUI's. |
| * BFD: (bfd). Binary file descriptors for object file IO. |
| * GDB library: (libgdb). Application programming interface to GDB. |
| * GDBM: (gdbm). Hashed databases. |
| * History: (history). Recall previous lines of input. |
| * Iostream: (iostream). C++ input/output. |
| * Libc: (libc). C library. |
| * Libg++: (libg++). C++ classes. |
| * Mmalloc: (mmalloc). Memory-mapped malloc. |
| * Readline: (readline). General command-line interface. |
| * Regex: (regex). Regular expressions. |
| * Termcap: (termcap). All about /etc/termcap. |
| |
| GNU programming documentation |
| * GDB internals: (gdbint). Debugger internals. |
| * Ld internals: (ldint). GNU linker internals. |
| * Stabs: (stabs). Symbol table debugging information format. |
| |
| DOS |
| * Demacs: (demacs). GNU Emacs for DOS. |
| * GNUish: (gnuish). GNU utilities for DOS. |
| |
| TeX things |
| * Afm2tfm: (dvips)Invoking afm2tfm. Making Type 1 fonts available to TeX. |
| * Dvips: (dvips). DVI-to-PostScript translator. |
| * Eplain: (eplain). Expanding on plain TeX. |
| * Kpathsearch: (kpathsea). File lookup along search paths. |
| * LaTeX: (latex). LaTeX. |
| * MakeIndex: (makeindex). Index creation for TeX. |
| * Naming fonts: (fontname). Filenames for TeX fonts. |
| * TeXDraw: (texdraw). Drawing PostScript diagrams within TeX. |
| * Web2c: (web2c). TeX, Metafont, and their companion programs. |
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| Other things |
| * Amd: (amdref). Filesystem automounter. |
| * CMUCL: (cmu-user). CMU Common Lisp. |
| * File headers: (filehdr). Bibliographic information for computer files. |
| * HTML: (snafu). Hypertext Markup Language 2.0 specification. |
| * Jargon: (jargon). The jargon file. |
| * Perl: (perl). Practical extraction and report language. |
| * PRCS: (prcs). Project revision control system. |
| * Screen: (screen). Virtual screen manager. |
| * UMB C.S. Dept.: (csinfo). UMass/Boston Computer Science Dept. info. |
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| Individual utilities |
| * aid: (id-utils)aid invocation. Matching strings. |
| * ar: (binutils)ar. Create/modify/extract archives. |
| * at-pr: (gnats)at-pr. Bug report timely reminders. |
| * autoreconf: (autoconf)Invoking autoreconf. Remake multiple configure's. |
| * autoscan: (autoconf)Invoking autoscan. Automate initial configure.in. |
| * awk: (Gawk)Invoking gawk. Text processing and scanning. |
| * basename: (sh-utils)basename invocation. Strip directory and suffix. |
| * bibtex: (web2c)BibTeX invocation. Maintaining bibliographies. |
| * c++filt: (binutils)c++filt. Demangle C++ symbols. |
| * cat: (textutils)cat invocation. Concatenate and write files. |
| * chgrp: (fileutils)chgrp invocation. Change file groups. |
| * chmod: (fileutils)chmod invocation. Change file permissions. |
| * chown: (fileutils)chown invocation. Change file owners/groups. |
| * chroot: (sh-utils)chroot invocation. Specify the root directory. |
| * cksum: (textutils)cksum invocation. Print POSIX CRC checksum. |
| * cmp: (diff)Invoking cmp. Character-by-character diff. |
| * comm: (textutils)comm invocation. Compare sorted files by line. |
| * cp: (fileutils)cp invocation. Copy files. |
| * csplit: (textutils)csplit invocation. Split by context. |
| * cut: (textutils)cut invocation. Print selected parts of lines. |
| * date: (sh-utils)date invocation. Print/set system date and time. |
| * dd: (fileutils)dd invocation. Copy and convert a file. |
| * df: (fileutils)df invocation. Report filesystems' disk usage. |
| * diff3: (diff)Invoking diff3. Three-way diff. |
| * dir: (fileutils)dir invocation. List directories briefly. |
| * dirname: (sh-utils)dirname invocation. Strip non-directory suffix. |
| * dmp: (web2c)Dmp invocation. Troff->MPX (MetaPost pictures). |
| * du: (fileutils)du invocation. Report on disk usage. |
| * dvicopy: (web2c)DVIcopy invocation. Virtual font expansion |
| * dvitomp: (web2c)DVItoMP invocation. DVI to MPX (MetaPost pictures). |
| * dvitype: (web2c)DVItype invocation. DVI to human-readable text. |
| * echo: (sh-utils)echo invocation. Print a line of text. |
| * edit-pr: (gnats)Invoking edit-pr. Changing bugs. |
| * eid: (id-utils)eid invocation. Invoking an editor on matches. |
| * emacsclient: (emacs)Emacs Server. Connecting to a running Emacs. |
| * emacsserver: (emacs)Emacs Server. Connecting to a running Emacs. |
| * env: (sh-utils)env invocation. Modify the environment. |
| * etags: (emacs)Create Tags Table. Creating a TAGS table. |
| * expand: (textutils)expand invocation. Convert tabs to spaces. |
| * expr: (sh-utils)expr invocation. Evaluate expressions. |
| * false: (sh-utils)false invocation. Do nothing, unsuccessfully. |
| * fid: (id-utils)fid invocation. Listing a file's identifiers. |
| * file-pr: (gnats)file-pr. Processing incoming traffic. |
| * find: (find)Invoking find. Finding and acting on files. |
| * fmt: (textutils)fmt invocation. Reformat paragraph text. |
| * fold: (textutils)fold invocation. Wrap long input lines. |
| * g++: (gcc)Invoking G++. The GNU C++ compiler. |
| * gftodvi: (web2c)GFtoDVI invocation. Generic font proofsheets. |
| * gftopk: (web2c)GFtoPK invocation. Generic to packed fonts. |
| * gftype: (web2c)GFtype invocation. GF to human-readable text. |
| * gid: (id-utils)gid invocation. Listing all matching lines. |
| * groups: (sh-utils)groups invocation. Print group names a user is in. |
| * gunzip: (gzip)Overview. Decompression. |
| * head: (textutils)head invocation. Output the first part of files. |
| * hostname: (sh-utils)hostname invocation. Print or set system name. |
| * id: (sh-utils)id invocation. Print real/effective uid/gid. |
| * idx: (id-utils)idx invocation. Testing mkid scanners. |
| * ifnames: (autoconf)Invoking ifnames. List conditionals in source. |
| * iid: (id-utils)iid invocation. Interactive complex queries. |
| * inimf: (web2c)inimf invocation. Initial Metafont. |
| * inimp: (web2c)inimp invocation. Initial MetaPost. |
| * initex: (web2c)initex invocation. Initial TeX. |
| * install: (fileutils)install invocation. Copy and change attributes. |
| * join: (textutils)join invocation. Join lines on a common field. |
| * kpsewhich: (kpathsea)Invoking kpsewhich. TeX file searching. |
| * lid: (id-utils)lid invocation. Matching identifier patterns. |
| * ln: (fileutils)ln invocation. Make links between files. |
| * locate: (find)Invoking locate. Finding files in a database. |
| * logname: (sh-utils)logname invocation. Print current login name. |
| * ls: (fileutils)ls invocation. List directory contents. |
| * makempx: (web2c)MakeMPX invocation. MetaPost label typesetting. |
| * maketexmf: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts. MF source generation. |
| * maketexpk: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts. PK bitmap generation. |
| * maketextex: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts. TeX source generation. |
| * maketextfm: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts. TeX font metric generation. |
| * mf: (web2c)mf invocation. Creating typeface families. |
| * mft: (web2c)MFT invocation. Prettyprinting Metafont source. |
| * mkdir: (fileutils)mkdir invocation. Create directories. |
| * mkfifo: (fileutils)mkfifo invocation. Create FIFOs: (named pipes). |
| * mkid: (id-utils)mkid invocation. Creating an ID database. |
| * mknod: (fileutils)mknod invocation. Create special files. |
| * mp: (web2c)mp invocation. Creating technical diagrams. |
| * mpto: (web2c)MPto invocation. MetaPost label extraction. |
| * mv: (fileutils)mv invocation. Rename files. |
| * newer: (web2c)Newer invocation. Compare modification times. |
| * nice: (sh-utils)nice invocation. Modify scheduling priority. |
| * nl: (textutils)nl invocation. Number lines and write files. |
| * nlmconv: (binutils)nlmconv. Convert object to NetWare LM. |
| * nm: (binutils)nm. List symbols in object files. |
| * nohup: (sh-utils)nohup invocation. Immunize to hangups. |
| * objcopy: (binutils)objcopy. Copy/translate object files. |
| * objdump: (binutils)objdump. Display info from object files. |
| * od: (textutils)od invocation. Dump files in octal, etc. |
| * paste: (textutils)paste invocation. Merge lines of files. |
| * patch: (diff)Invoking patch. Automatically applying diffs. |
| * patgen: (web2c)Patgen invocation. Creating hyphenation patterns. |
| * pathchk: (sh-utils)pathchk invocation. Check file name portability. |
| * pid: (id-utils)pid invocation. Looking up filenames. |
| * pktogf: (web2c)PKtoGF invocation. Packed to generic fonts. |
| * pktype: (web2c)PKtype invocation. PK to human-readable text. |
| * pltotf: (web2c)PLtoTF invocation. Property list to TFM. |
| * pooltype: (web2c)Pooltype invocation. Display WEB pool files. |
| * pr-addr: (gnats)pr-addr. Bug report address retrieval. |
| * pr-edit: (gnats)pr-edit. The edit-pr driver. |
| * pr: (textutils)pr invocation. Paginate or columnate files. |
| * printenv: (sh-utils)printenv invocation. Print environment variables. |
| * printf: (sh-utils)printf invocation. Format and print data. |
| * pwd: (sh-utils)pwd invocation. Print working directory. |
| * query-pr: (gnats)Invoking query-pr. Bug searching/reporting. |
| * queue-pr: (gnats)queue-pr. Handling incoming traffic. |
| * ranlib: (binutils)ranlib. Index archive file contents. |
| * rm: (fileutils)rm invocation. Remove files. |
| * rmdir: (fileutils)rmdir invocation. Remove empty directories. |
| * sdiff: (diff)Invoking sdiff. Interactively merge files. |
| * send-pr: (gnats)Invoking send-pr. Submitting bugs. |
| * shar: (sharutils)shar invocation. Create shell archive. |
| * size: (binutils)size. List object file section sizes. |
| * sleep: (sh-utils)sleep invocation. Delay for a specified time. |
| * sort: (textutils)sort invocation. Sort text files. |
| * split: (textutils)split invocation. Split into fixed-size pieces. |
| * strings: (binutils)strings. List printable strings. |
| * strip: (binutils)strip. Discard symbols. |
| * stty: (sh-utils)stty invocation. Print/change terminal settings. |
| * su: (sh-utils)su invocation. Modify user and group id. |
| * sum: (textutils)sum invocation. Print traditional checksum. |
| * sync: (fileutils)sync invocation. Synchronize memory and disk. |
| * tabs: (tput)Invoking tabs. Tab settings. |
| * tac: (textutils)tac invocation. Reverse files. |
| * tail: (textutils)tail invocation. Output the last part of files. |
| * tangle: (web2c)Tangle invocation. WEB to Pascal. |
| * tee: (sh-utils)tee invocation. Redirect to multiple files. |
| * test: (sh-utils)test invocation. File/string tests. |
| * tex: (web2c)tex invocation. Typesetting. |
| * tftopl: (web2c)TFtoPL invocation. TFM -> property list. |
| * touch: (fileutils)touch invocation. Change file timestamps. |
| * tput: (tput)Invoking tput. Termcap in shell scripts. |
| * tr: (textutils)tr invocation. Translate characters. |
| * true: (sh-utils)true invocation. Do nothing, successfully. |
| * tty: (sh-utils)tty invocation. Print terminal name. |
| * uname: (sh-utils)uname invocation. Print system information. |
| * unexpand: (textutils)unexpand invocation. Convert spaces to tabs. |
| * uniq: (textutils)uniq invocation. Uniqify files. |
| * unshar: (sharutils)unshar invocation. Extract from shell archive. |
| * updatedb: (find)Invoking updatedb. Building the locate database. |
| * users: (sh-utils)users invocation. Print current user names. |
| * vdir: (fileutils)vdir invocation. List directories verbosely. |
| * vftovp: (web2c)VFtoVP invocation. Virtual font -> virtual pl. |
| * view-pr: (gnats)Invoking view-pr. Showing bug reports. |
| * virmf: (web2c)virmf invocation. Virgin Metafont. |
| * virmp: (web2c)virmp invocation. Virgin MetaPost. |
| * virtex: (web2c)virtex invocation. Virgin TeX. |
| * vptovf: (web2c)VPtoVF invocation. Virtual pl -> virtual font. |
| * wc: (textutils)wc invocation. Byte, word, and line counts. |
| * weave: (web2c)Weave invocation. WEB to TeX. |
| * who: (sh-utils)who invocation. Print who is logged in. |
| * whoami: (sh-utils)whoami invocation. Print effective user id. |
| * xargs: (find)Invoking xargs. Operating on many files. |
| * yes: (sh-utils)yes invocation. Print a string indefinitely. |
| * zcat: (gzip)Overview. Decompression to stdout. |