# Info

Info is a type of documentation. The documents are in a file format called texinfo, and can be read on the command line with the `info` program.

The Info ioslave allows you to read the info pages installed on your system, from within &konqueror;. You can use it very easily:

    info:/gcc

This would show you the top level node of the Info documentation for the `gcc` compiler.

Info is a GNU replacement for `man`, but is not widely used outside of GNU software.

You can quite easily browse the info documentation you have installed from within the &khelpcenter; application, or you can use the info ioslave directly from within both &konqueror; and the mini-cli.