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Some advanced INFO commands
The course is almost over, so please stick with it to the end.
If you have been moving around to different nodes and wish to retrace
your steps, the "L" command ("L" for "Last") will do that, one node at
a time. If you have been following directions, an "L" command now will
get you back to Help-M. Another L command would undo the U and get you
back to FOO-Node. Another L would undo the M and get you back to
Help-M.
>> Try typing three L's, pausing in between to see what each L does.
Then follow directions again and you will end up back here.
Note the difference between L and P: L moves to where YOU last were,
whereas P always moves to the node which the Header says is the
"Previous" node (from this node, to Help-M).
The "D" command gets you instantly to the Directory node. This node,
which is the first one you saw when you entered INFO, has a menu which
leads (directly, or indirectly through other menus), to all the nodes
that exist.
>> Try doing a "D", then do an L to return here (yes, DO return).
Sometimes, in INFO documentation, you will see a footnote-pointer.
Footnote pointers look like this: *Note ftnt: Help-Ft. That is a real,
live footnote pointer which is named "Ftnt" and points at the node
named "Help-Ft".
If you wish to look at a footnote, you must use the "F" command. The
"F" must be followed by the footnote name (in this case, "Ftnt"). You
can use Rubout and Dot to edit the footnote name, and if you change
your mind about looking at any footnote you can use a lot of Rubouts to
cancel the command.
>> Type "F", followed by "Ftnt", and a CR.
To get a list of all the footnotes in the current node, you can type
"?" after an "F". The "F" continues to await a footnote name even
after printing the list, so if you don't actually want to visit a
footnote you should type a Rubout to cancel the "F".
>> Type "F?" to get a list of the footnotes in this node. Then type a
Rubout and see how the "F" gives up.
>> Now type "N" to see the last node of the course.