any advantage of "invoke-rc.d" over "service"??

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  i'm reading some new install instructions for a newly-released and
> it suggests to use:
>
>  $ sudo invoke-rc.d <service name>  ... etc etc ...
>
>  normally, i'd use the "service" command instead, and i understand
> that "invoke-rc.d" is used *during* the install process when, for some
> reason i don't understand, "service" isn't fully available(?)
>
>  are those two commands entirely equivalent?  is there any reason
> that normal operation *should* use "service" over "invoke-rc.d"?  just
> curious.

service works for both init and init.d scripts