heheh
You're right. It would take a lifetime (or more) to read it all. I have even more text in my fiction folder (I'm a frequent visitor of
Project Gutenberg and other ebook sites). The non-fiction mostly gets searched as reference. I figure one day I'll lose my net connection or be laid up sick in bed and unable to get onto the net. I have a gazillion projects I'm always trying to do, but if I just wanted to veg out I have years of reading, fiction and non-fiction, on all sorts of wonderful subjects.
I'd never heard of
pinfo before. Info files tend to be forgotten too much these days, even by information obsessives like me.
A while back I installed
info in my Puppy in order to read them. They are a little frustrating though, now we have been so spoiled by the much easier hypertext of the web. I tried
pinfo after you suggested it, but unfortunately it exits after being unable to find
nogroup. That was fixed by using the
addgroup command to add the
nogroup group (which is weird, like pondering whether the set of empty sets contains itself). Anyway, pinfo then failed with the error message "Couldn't open temporary file".
Then I downloaded it from sourceforge and compiled it, but when it ran it gave the error message
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Przemek's Info Viewer v0.6.8
sh: /tmp/fileF08qXG: Permission denied
sh: /tmp/filesk9E53: Permission denied
sh: /tmp/filesk9E53: Permission denied
Error: could not open info file, trying manual
Error: No manual page found
I guess I'll have to continue to use the old
info command for a while yet.
A while back I tried to find a program to convert info files into the more universal html format, without much luck. I guess I should try writing a converter someday as there does seem to be a lot of information locked up in that unfortunately obsolete format.
Coming back to the topic of
at, I found a nice program called
when, which seems more versatile than at or cron. It is downloadable from
http://www.lightandmatter.com/ where you'll also find a number of very cool reference books on physics and calculus. I don't bother with dead-end, paper-targetted formats like pdf; I use wget's spider capabilities to grab the online html versions of the books -- much easier to use. For example,
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wget -m -np -k -p -E -l 0 -R.pdf,.gz,.tar,.tgz,.ps,.exe,.bz2,.sig,.zip,.rpm,.deb,.dmg,.mpg,.mpeg,.mp2,.mp3,.mp4,.avi,.mov,.qt,.swf,.wav,.au,.iso http://www.lightandmatter.com/html_books/lm
the "-R" followed by the long list of extensions prevents it wasting time downloading those format files. it will decend to deeper levels, but not back up to parent levels, will grab all the images required for the pages (even if they're on other sites) and will convert all links to work locally. Ummm... I seem to have come back to books again.