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.
9 $Id: dir-example,v 1.1.1.3 1998/03/24 18:19:30 law Exp $
11 File: dir, Node: Top, This is the top of the INFO tree.
13 This is the Info main menu (aka directory node).
14 A few useful Info commands:
17 `?' lists all Info commands;
18 `h' starts the Info tutorial;
19 `mTexinfo RET' visits the Texinfo manual, etc.
21 Not all of the topics shown below may be available on this system.
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.
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.
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.
80 * Elisp: (elisp). GNU Emacs Lisp reference manual.
81 * Intro Elisp: (emacs-lisp-intro). Introduction to Elisp programming.
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.
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.
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.
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.
133 * dosemu: (dosemu). Linux DOS emulator.
134 * gpm: (gpm). Linux general purpose mouse interface.
135 * linux-faq: (linux-faq). The Linux FAQ List
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.
150 * Demacs: (demacs). GNU Emacs for DOS.
151 * GNUish: (gnuish). GNU utilities for DOS.
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.
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.
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