You can browse through the online documentation using either GNU Emacs or the documentation browser program info included in the Developer's Kit distribution. Online, the manuals are organized into nodes, which correspond to the chapters and sections of a printed book. You can follow them in sequence, if you wish, just like in the printed book—but there are also other choices. The documents have menus that let you go quickly to the node that has the information you need. info has hot references; if one section refers to another, you can tell info to take you immediately to that other section—and you can get back again easily to take up your reading where you left off. Naturally, you can also search for particular words or phrases.
The best way to get started with the online documentation system is to run the browser info. After this Developer's Kit release is installed on your system, you can get into info by just typing its name—no options or arguments are necessary—at your shell's prompt, shown as # like the following.
# info
(You may need to check that info is in your shell path after you install the Developer's Kit release. If you have problems running info, please contact your system administrator.)
To learn how to use info, type h for a programmed instruction sequence, or Ctrl-h for a short summary of commands.
If at any time you are ready to stop using info, type Q.
See Reading Info Files for detailed discussion of the info program.
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