On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:58:00 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:
> Hi folks,
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:38:02 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> <snip>
>> Ahh, a very good point. <g>
>> In what other OS can the user simply type (at the CLI).....
>> man last
>> man ls
>> man lilo
>> man whatever
>> and get the manual pages for that command or program??? ;-)
> if You have a newer DOS version, like OpenDOS 7 or so try entering "help
> copy" :-).
You are correct. That will work for any of the stuff that was included
with OpenDos/Drdos (heck, even M$dos has that) ;-)achn-�_
How about,
help gdisk
help qv
help mpeg
help arachne
help pkzip
help pkunzip
Yes, most (but not all), DOS programs have the /h or /? command line option.
This is one of the reasons the program file itself is bigger than it
needs to be. (it also contains the manual) :(
In DOS, the man pages are "inside" the executable.
In Linux, the man pages are kept "outside" of the binary.
--
Glenn
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