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# Using the Stand-alone Info Reader

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## What is Info?

This text documents the use of the GNU Info program, version 2.10.

Info is a program which is used to view info files on an ASCII terminal. info files are the result of processing texinfo files with the program `makeinfo` or with the Emacs command `M-x texinfo-format-buffer`. Finally, texinfo is a documentation language which allows a printed manual and online documentation (an info file) to be produced from a single source file.

- Options: Options you can pass on the command line.
- Cursor Commands: Commands which move the cursor within a node.
- Scrolling Commands: Commands for moving the node around in a window.
- Node Commands: Commands for selecting a new node.
- Searching Commands: Commands for searching an info file.
- Xref Commands: Commands for selecting cross references.
- Window Commands: Commands which manipulate multiple windows.
- Printing Nodes: How to print out the contents of a node.
- Miscellaneous Commands: A few commands that defy categories.
- Variables: How to change the default behaviour of Info.

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