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 `eg%' here):
eg% 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 systems administrator.)
To learn how to use info, type the command `h' for a
programmed instruction sequence, or CTL-h for a short
summary of commands. If at any time you are ready to stop using
info, type `q'.
See section `The Info Program' in GNU Online Documentation, for
detailed discussion of the info program.
All of the manuals in our printed documentation set (see section Manuals) are also available via the Cygnus Support Information Gallery, our World-Wide Web server, available at
http://www.cygnus.com/
Contact Cygnus Support for information on connecting via the World-Wide Web.
As with all GNU software, the HTML source for our documents is
available (or you can convert them yourself using publicly available
utilities) if you wish to put them into an internal Web server for use
at your facility. Contact Cygnus Support for details, and please report
any problems to the Cygnus documentation department at
doc@cygnus.com.