On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 06:46:16 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:38:02 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 01:30:26 +0300, Cristian Burneci wrote:
>>> This is what makes Linux so difficult to master, but also so addictive. If
> you
>>> manage to stay near it for the first two or three days, you'll get to love
>>> Linux, despite the fact you're bumping into all sort of things you've got no
>>> idea how to handle. Fortunately there's lot of documentation included and
> even
>>> more not included, but easy to find on the Internet.
>> 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??? ;-)
> I have not yet worked with Linux. The feature described above
> would seem no different from "doshelp" which comes with DOS 5.00.
The difference is that "doshelp" only shows the commands and utilities
that came with DOS.
The "man" command in Linux shows the manual pages for ALL of your stuff.
man arachne
man gimp
man netscape
man mpeg
man any-prgram-that-has-been-installed
--
Glenn
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