texinfo/dir-example

   1 This is the directory file `dir' a.k.a. `DIR', which contains the
   2   topmost node of the Info hierarchy.
   3 This particular dir file is merely made available for your hacking
   4   pleasure, not official or standard in any way.  If it doesn't make sense
   5   to you, or you don't like it, ignore it.
   6 If you have dir entries for Texinfo manuals you'd like to be added here,
   7   please send them to karl@gnu.org.
   8
   9 $Id: dir-example,v 1.1.1.3 1998/03/24 18:19:30 law Exp $
  10 \1f
  11 File: dir,      Node: Top,      This is the top of the INFO tree.
  12
  13 This is the Info main menu (aka directory node).
  14 A few useful Info commands:
  15
  16   `q' quits;
  17   `?' lists all Info commands;
  18   `h' starts the Info tutorial;
  19   `mTexinfo RET' visits the Texinfo manual, etc.
  20
  21 Not all of the topics shown below may be available on this system.
  22
  23 * Menu:
  24
  25 GNU packages
  26 * Bash: (bash).                 Bourne-Again SHell.
  27 * Cpio: (cpio).                 Copy-in-copy-out archiver.
  28 * DC: (dc).                     Postfix desk calculator.
  29 * Diff: (diff).                 Comparing and merging programs.
  30 * Ed: (ed).                     Line editor.
  31 * Emacs: (emacs).               Extensible self-documenting text editor.
  32 * File utilities: (fileutils).  GNU file utilities.
  33 * Finding files: (find).        Operating on files matching certain criteria.
  34 * Font utilities: (fontu).      Programs for font manipulation.
  35 * Gawk: (gawk.info).            A text scanning and processing language.
  36 * Gcal: (gcal).                 GNU calendar program.
  37 * Gzip: (gzip).                 General (de)compression.
  38 * Identifier DB: (id-utils).    Identifier database utilities.
  39 * Ispell: (ispell).             Interactive spelling corrector.
  40 * M4: (m4).                     Macro processor.
  41 * Make: (make).                 Remake files automatically.
  42 * Ptx: (ptx).                   Permuted index generator.
  43 * Shar: (sharutils).            Shell archiver, uudecode/uuencode.
  44 * Shell utilities: (sh-utils).  GNU shell utilities.
  45 * tar: (tar).                   Making tape (or disk) archives.
  46 * Text utilities: (textutils).  GNU text utilities.
  47 * Time: (time).                 Measuring program resource usage.
  48 * UUCP: (uucp).                 Copying between machines, offline.
  49 * Wdiff: (wdiff).               Word-by-word comparison.
  50 * Wget: (wget).                 URL download.
  51
  52 GNU programming tools
  53 * As: (as).                     Assembler.
  54 * Binutils: (binutils).         ar/copy/objdump/nm/size/strip/ranlib.
  55 * Bison: (bison).               LALR(1) parser generator.
  56 * CPP: (cpp).                   C preprocessor.
  57 * CVS: (cvs).                   Concurrent versions system for source control.
  58 * DejaGnu: (dejagnu).           Testing framework.
  59 * Flex: (flex).                 A fast scanner generator.
  60 * Gasp: (gasp).                 GNU Assembler preprocessor.
  61 * Libtool: (libtool).           Generic library support script.
  62 * GCC: (gcc).                   C compiler.
  63 * GDB: (gdb).                   Source-level debugger for C and C++.
  64 * Gettext Utilities: (gettext). GNU gettext utilities.
  65 * Gperf: (gperf).               Perfect hash function generator.
  66 * Gprof: (gprof).               Profiler.
  67 * Indent: (indent).             Prettyprinter for programs.
  68 * Ld: (ld).                     Linker.
  69
  70 Texinfo documentation system
  71 * Info: (info).                 Documentation browsing system.
  72 * Texinfo: (texinfo).           The GNU documentation format.
  73 * info program: (info-stnd).    Standalone Info-reading program.
  74 * install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info. Updating info/dir entries.
  75 * texi2dvi: (texinfo)Format with texi2dvi.      Printing Texinfo documentation.
  76 * texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex.  Sorting Texinfo index files.
  77 * makeinfo: (texinfo)makeinfo preferred.        Translate Texinfo source.
  78
  79 GNU Emacs Lisp
  80 * Elisp: (elisp).               GNU Emacs Lisp reference manual.
  81 * Intro Elisp: (emacs-lisp-intro). Introduction to Elisp programming.
  82
  83 * AUC TeX: (auctex).            Editing (La)TeX files.
  84 * Calc: (calc).                 Calculator and more.
  85 * CC mode: (cc-mode).           Editing C, C++, Objective C, and Java.
  86 * Common Lisp: (cl).            Partial Common Lisp support for Emacs Lisp.
  87 * Dired-x: (dired-x).           Extra directory editor features.
  88 * Edebug: (edebug).             Source-level debugger for Emacs Lisp.
  89 * Ediff: (ediff).               Comprehensive visual interface to diff & patch.
  90 * EDB: (edb).                   Database for Emacs.
  91 * Forms: (forms).               Fill-in-the-form data entry.
  92 * Gmhist: (gmhist).             Generic minibuffer history.
  93 * GNUS: (gnus).                 Netnews reading and posting.
  94 * Mailcrypt: (mailcrypt).       Use PGP in Emacs.
  95 * MH-E: (mh-e).                 Emacs interface to the MH mail system.
  96 * PCL-CVS: (pcl-cvs).           Emacs front end to CVS.
  97 * Supercite: (sc).              Supercite for including other people's words.
  98 * VIP: (vip).                   vi emulation.
  99 * VIPER: (viper).               The new VI-emulation mode in Emacs-19.29.
 100 * VM: (vm).                     Mail reader.
 101 * W3: (w3).                     WWW browser.
 102
 103 GNU programming support
 104 * Autoconf: (autoconf).         Automatic generation of package configuration.
 105 * Configure: (configure).       Cygnus configure.
 106 * Gnats: (gnats).               Cygnus bug tracking system.
 107 * Remsync: (remsync).           Remote synchronization of directory trees.
 108 * Send PR: (send-pr).           Cygnus bug reporting for Gnats.
 109
 110 GNU libraries
 111 * Annotate: (annotate).         High-level GDB to GUI's.
 112 * BFD: (bfd).                   Binary file descriptors for object file IO.
 113 * GDB library: (libgdb).        Application programming interface to GDB.
 114 * GDBM: (gdbm).                 Hashed databases.
 115 * History: (history).           Recall previous lines of input.
 116 * Iostream: (iostream).         C++ input/output.
 117 * Libc: (libc).                 C library.
 118 * Libg++: (libg++).             C++ classes.
 119 * Mmalloc: (mmalloc).           Memory-mapped malloc.
 120 * Readline: (readline).         General command-line interface.
 121 * Regex: (regex).               Regular expressions.
 122 * Termcap: (termcap).           All about /etc/termcap.
 123
 124 GNU programming documentation
 125 * GDB internals: (gdbint).      Debugger internals.
 126 * Ld internals: (ldint).        GNU linker internals.
 127 * Maintaining: (maintain).      Maintaining GNU software.
 128 * Source config: (cfg-paper).   Some theory on configuring source packages.
 129 * Stabs: (stabs).               Symbol table debugging information format.
 130 * Standards: (standards).       GNU coding standards.
 131
 132 Linux
 133 * dosemu: (dosemu).             Linux DOS emulator.
 134 * gpm: (gpm).                   Linux general purpose mouse interface.
 135 * linux-faq: (linux-faq).       The Linux FAQ List
 136
 137 TeX things
 138 * Afm2tfm: (dvips)Invoking afm2tfm.  Making Type 1 fonts available to TeX.
 139 * Dvips: (dvips).               DVI-to-PostScript translator.
 140 * Eplain: (eplain).             Expanding on plain TeX.
 141 * Kpathsearch: (kpathsea).      File lookup along search paths.
 142 * LaTeX: (latex).               LaTeX.
 143 * MakeIndex: (makeindex).       Index creation for TeX.
 144 * Naming fonts: (fontname).     Filenames for TeX fonts.
 145 * TDS: (tds).                   Standard TeX directory structure.
 146 * TeXDraw: (texdraw).           Drawing PostScript diagrams within TeX.
 147 * Web2c: (web2c).               TeX, Metafont, and their companion programs.
 148
 149 DOS
 150 * Demacs: (demacs).             GNU Emacs for DOS.
 151 * GNUish: (gnuish).             GNU utilities for DOS.
 152
 153 Other things
 154 * Amd: (amdref).                Filesystem automounter.
 155 * CMUCL: (cmu-user).            CMU Common Lisp.
 156 * File headers: (filehdr).      Bibliographic information for computer files.
 157 * GCP: (gcp).                   Game club protocol.
 158 * GIMP: (pdb).                  The GIMP procedural database.
 159 * HTML: (snafu).                Hypertext Markup Language 2.0 specification.
 160 * Jargon: (jargon).             The jargon file.
 161 * JED: (jed).                   JED editor documentation.
 162 * octave: (octave).             Octave - A language for numerical computation.
 163 * Perl: (perl).                 Practical extraction and report language.
 164 * PRCS: (prcs).                 Project revision control system.
 165 * Screen: (screen).             Virtual screen manager.
 166 * UMB C.S. Dept.: (csinfo).     UMass/Boston Computer Science Dept. info.
 167
 168 Individual utilities
 169 * aclocal: (automake)Invoking aclocal.          Generating aclocal.m4.
 170 * aid: (id-utils)aid invocation.                Matching strings.
 171 * ar: (binutils)ar.                             Create/modify/extract archives.
 172 * at-pr: (gnats)at-pr.                          Bug report timely reminders.
 173 * automake: (automake).                         Making Makefile.in's.
 174 * autoreconf: (autoconf)Invoking autoreconf.    Remake multiple configure's.
 175 * autoscan: (autoconf)Invoking autoscan.        Automate initial configure.in.
 176 * awk: (gawk)Invoking gawk.                     Text processing and scanning.
 177 * basename: (sh-utils)basename invocation.      Strip directory and suffix.
 178 * bibtex: (web2c)BibTeX invocation.             Maintaining bibliographies.
 179 * c++filt: (binutils)c++filt.                   Demangle C++ symbols.
 180 * cat: (textutils)cat invocation.               Concatenate and write files.
 181 * chgrp: (fileutils)chgrp invocation.           Change file groups.
 182 * chmod: (fileutils)chmod invocation.           Change file permissions.
 183 * chown: (fileutils)chown invocation.           Change file owners/groups.
 184 * chroot: (sh-utils)chroot invocation.          Specify the root directory.
 185 * cksum: (textutils)cksum invocation.           Print POSIX CRC checksum.
 186 * cmp: (diff)Invoking cmp.                      Character-by-character diff.
 187 * comm: (textutils)comm invocation.             Compare sorted files by line.
 188 * cp: (fileutils)cp invocation.                 Copy files.
 189 * csplit: (textutils)csplit invocation.         Split by context.
 190 * cut: (textutils)cut invocation.               Print selected parts of lines.
 191 * date: (sh-utils)date invocation.              Print/set system date and time.
 192 * dd: (fileutils)dd invocation.                 Copy and convert a file.
 193 * df: (fileutils)df invocation.                 Report filesystem disk usage.
 194 * diff3: (diff)Invoking diff3.                  Three-way diff.
 195 * dir: (fileutils)dir invocation.               List directories briefly.
 196 * dircolors: (fileutils)dircolors invocation.   Color setup for ls.
 197 * dirname: (sh-utils)dirname invocation.        Strip non-directory suffix.
 198 * dmp: (web2c)Dmp invocation.                   Troff->MPX (MetaPost pictures).
 199 * du: (fileutils)du invocation.                 Report on disk usage.
 200 * dvicopy: (web2c)DVIcopy invocation.           Virtual font expansion
 201 * dvitomp: (web2c)DVItoMP invocation.           DVI to MPX (MetaPost pictures).
 202 * dvitype: (web2c)DVItype invocation.           DVI to human-readable text.
 203 * echo: (sh-utils)echo invocation.              Print a line of text.
 204 * edit-pr: (gnats)Invoking edit-pr.             Changing bugs.
 205 * eid: (id-utils)eid invocation.                Invoking an editor on matches.
 206 * emacsclient: (emacs)Emacs Server.             Connecting to a running Emacs.
 207 * emacsserver: (emacs)Emacs Server.             Connecting to a running Emacs.
 208 * env: (sh-utils)env invocation.                Modify the environment.
 209 * etags: (emacs)Create Tags Table.              Creating a TAGS table.
 210 * expand: (textutils)expand invocation.         Convert tabs to spaces.
 211 * expr: (sh-utils)expr invocation.              Evaluate expressions.
 212 * factor: (sh-utils)factor invocation.          Print prime factors
 213 * false: (sh-utils)false invocation.            Do nothing, unsuccessfully.
 214 * fid: (id-utils)fid invocation.                Listing a file's identifiers.
 215 * file-pr: (gnats)file-pr.                      Processing incoming traffic.
 216 * find: (find)Invoking find.                    Finding and acting on files.
 217 * fmt: (textutils)fmt invocation.               Reformat paragraph text.
 218 * fold: (textutils)fold invocation.             Wrap long input lines.
 219 * g++: (gcc)Invoking G++.                       The GNU C++ compiler.
 220 * gcal2txt: (gcal)Invoking gcal2txt.            Calendar resource to text file.
 221 * gettextize: (gettext)gettextize Invocation.   Prepare a package for gettext.
 222 * gftodvi: (web2c)GFtoDVI invocation.           Generic font proofsheets.
 223 * gftopk: (web2c)GFtoPK invocation.             Generic to packed fonts.
 224 * gftype: (web2c)GFtype invocation.             GF to human-readable text.
 225 * gid: (id-utils)gid invocation.                Listing all matching lines.
 226 * git: (git).                                   GNU interactive tools.
 227 * groups: (sh-utils)groups invocation.          Print group names a user is in.
 228 * gunzip: (gzip)Overview.                       Decompression.
 229 * head: (textutils)head invocation.             Output the first part of files.
 230 * hostname: (sh-utils)hostname invocation.      Print or set system name.
 231 * id: (sh-utils)id invocation.                  Print real/effective uid/gid.
 232 * idx: (id-utils)idx invocation.                Testing mkid scanners.
 233 * ifnames: (autoconf)Invoking ifnames.          List conditionals in source.
 234 * iid: (id-utils)iid invocation.                Interactive complex queries.
 235 * inimf: (web2c)inimf invocation.               Initial Metafont.
 236 * inimp: (web2c)inimp invocation.               Initial MetaPost.
 237 * initex: (web2c)initex invocation.             Initial TeX.
 238 * install: (fileutils)install invocation.       Copy and change attributes.
 239 * join: (textutils)join invocation.             Join lines on a common field.
 240 * kpsewhich: (kpathsea)Invoking kpsewhich.      TeX file searching.
 241 * lid: (id-utils)lid invocation.                Matching identifier patterns.
 242 * ln: (fileutils)ln invocation.                 Make links between files.
 243 * locate: (find)Invoking locate.                Finding files in a database.
 244 * logname: (sh-utils)logname invocation.        Print current login name.
 245 * ls: (fileutils)ls invocation.                 List directory contents.
 246 * makempx: (web2c)MakeMPX invocation.           MetaPost label typesetting.
 247 * maketexmf: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts.         MF source generation.
 248 * maketexpk: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts.         PK bitmap generation.
 249 * maketextex: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts.        TeX source generation.
 250 * maketextfm: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts.        TeX font metric generation.
 251 * md5sum: (textutils)md5sum invocation.         Print or check message-digests.
 252 * mf: (web2c)mf invocation.                     Creating typeface families.
 253 * mft: (web2c)MFT invocation.                   Prettyprinting Metafont source.
 254 * mkdir: (fileutils)mkdir invocation.           Create directories.
 255 * mkfifo: (fileutils)mkfifo invocation.         Create FIFOs: (named pipes).
 256 * mkid: (id-utils)mkid invocation.              Creating an ID database.
 257 * mknod: (fileutils)mknod invocation.           Create special files.
 258 * mp: (web2c)mp invocation.                     Creating technical diagrams.
 259 * mpto: (web2c)MPto invocation.                 MetaPost label extraction.
 260 * msgfmt: (gettext)msgfmt Invocation.           Make MO files out of PO files.
 261 * msgmerge: (gettext)msgmerge Invocation.       Update two PO files into one.
 262 * mv: (fileutils)mv invocation.                 Rename files.
 263 * newer: (web2c)Newer invocation.               Compare modification times.
 264 * nice: (sh-utils)nice invocation.              Modify scheduling priority.
 265 * nl: (textutils)nl invocation.                 Number lines and write files.
 266 * nlmconv: (binutils)nlmconv.                   Convert object to NetWare LM.
 267 * nm: (binutils)nm.                             List symbols in object files.
 268 * nohup: (sh-utils)nohup invocation.            Immunize to hangups.
 269 * objcopy: (binutils)objcopy.                   Copy/translate object files.
 270 * objdump: (binutils)objdump.                   Display info from object files.
 271 * od: (textutils)od invocation.                 Dump files in octal, etc.
 272 * paste: (textutils)paste invocation.           Merge lines of files.
 273 * patch: (diff)Invoking patch.                  Automatically applying diffs.
 274 * patgen: (web2c)Patgen invocation.             Creating hyphenation patterns.
 275 * pathchk: (sh-utils)pathchk invocation.        Check file name portability.
 276 * pid: (id-utils)pid invocation.                Looking up filenames.
 277 * pktogf: (web2c)PKtoGF invocation.             Packed to generic fonts.
 278 * pktype: (web2c)PKtype invocation.             PK to human-readable text.
 279 * pltotf: (web2c)PLtoTF invocation.             Property list to TFM.
 280 * pooltype: (web2c)Pooltype invocation.         Display WEB pool files.
 281 * pr-addr: (gnats)pr-addr.                      Bug report address retrieval.
 282 * pr-edit: (gnats)pr-edit.                      The edit-pr driver.
 283 * pr: (textutils)pr invocation.                 Paginate or columnate files.
 284 * printenv: (sh-utils)printenv invocation.      Print environment variables.
 285 * printf: (sh-utils)printf invocation.          Format and print data.
 286 * pwd: (sh-utils)pwd invocation.                Print working directory.
 287 * query-pr: (gnats)Invoking query-pr.           Bug searching/reporting.
 288 * queue-pr: (gnats)queue-pr.                    Handling incoming traffic.
 289 * ranlib: (binutils)ranlib.                     Index archive file contents.
 290 * rm: (fileutils)rm invocation.                 Remove files.
 291 * rmdir: (fileutils)rmdir invocation.           Remove empty directories.
 292 * sdiff: (diff)Invoking sdiff.                  Interactively merge files.
 293 * send-pr: (gnats)Invoking send-pr.             Submitting bugs.
 294 * seq: (sh-utils)seq invocation.                Print numeric sequences
 295 * shar: (sharutils)shar invocation.             Create shell archive.
 296 * size: (binutils)size.                         List object file section sizes.
 297 * sleep: (sh-utils)sleep invocation.            Delay for a specified time.
 298 * sort: (textutils)sort invocation.             Sort text files.
 299 * split: (textutils)split invocation.           Split into fixed-size pieces.
 300 * strings: (binutils)strings.                   List printable strings.
 301 * strip: (binutils)strip.                       Discard symbols.
 302 * stty: (sh-utils)stty invocation.              Print/change terminal settings.
 303 * su: (sh-utils)su invocation.                  Modify user and group id.
 304 * sum: (textutils)sum invocation.               Print traditional checksum.
 305 * sync: (fileutils)sync invocation.             Synchronize memory and disk.
 306 * tabs: (tput)Invoking tabs.                    Tab settings.
 307 * tac: (textutils)tac invocation.               Reverse files.
 308 * tail: (textutils)tail invocation.             Output the last part of files.
 309 * tangle: (web2c)Tangle invocation.             WEB to Pascal.
 310 * tcal: (gcal)Invoking tcal.                    Run Gcal with tomorrow's date.
 311 * tee: (sh-utils)tee invocation.                Redirect to multiple files.
 312 * test: (sh-utils)test invocation.              File/string tests.
 313 * tex: (web2c)tex invocation.                   Typesetting.
 314 * tftopl: (web2c)TFtoPL invocation.             TFM -> property list.
 315 * touch: (fileutils)touch invocation.           Change file timestamps.
 316 * tput: (tput)Invoking tput.                    Termcap in shell scripts.
 317 * tr: (textutils)tr invocation.                 Translate characters.
 318 * true: (sh-utils)true invocation.              Do nothing, successfully.
 319 * tty: (sh-utils)tty invocation.                Print terminal name.
 320 * txt2gcal: (gcal)Invoking txt2gcal.            Calendar text to resource file.
 321 * uname: (sh-utils)uname invocation.            Print system information.
 322 * unexpand: (textutils)unexpand invocation.     Convert spaces to tabs.
 323 * uniq: (textutils)uniq invocation.             Uniqify files.
 324 * unshar: (sharutils)unshar invocation.         Extract from shell archive.
 325 * updatedb: (find)Invoking updatedb.            Building the locate database.
 326 * users: (sh-utils)users invocation.            Print current user names.
 327 * vdir: (fileutils)vdir invocation.             List directories verbosely.
 328 * vftovp: (web2c)VFtoVP invocation.             Virtual font -> virtual pl.
 329 * view-pr: (gnats)Invoking view-pr.             Showing bug reports.
 330 * virmf: (web2c)virmf invocation.               Virgin Metafont.
 331 * virmp: (web2c)virmp invocation.               Virgin MetaPost.
 332 * virtex: (web2c)virtex invocation.             Virgin TeX.
 333 * vptovf: (web2c)VPtoVF invocation.             Virtual pl -> virtual font.
 334 * wc: (textutils)wc invocation.                 Byte, word, and line counts.
 335 * weave: (web2c)Weave invocation.               WEB to TeX.
 336 * who: (sh-utils)who invocation.                Print who is logged in.
 337 * whoami: (sh-utils)whoami invocation.          Print effective user id.
 338 * xargs: (find)Invoking xargs.                  Operating on many files.
 339 * xgettext: (gettext)xgettext Invocation.       Extract strings into a PO file.
 340 * yes: (sh-utils)yes invocation.                Print a string indefinitely.
 341 * zcat: (gzip)Overview.                         Decompression to stdout.