On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:32:51 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> 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
> Not so.
> Man only shows the MAN pages that have been installed.
> In the versions of Linux that _I_ have tried, that's damn few. :(
> And there is no need to suggest that I install one of the 100+mB versions
> as I'm trying to limit the size of text Linux to 20x the size of DOS. <G>
OK, that's a good point.
I just had a thought....
Has anyone ever heard of putting the man pages on a CD and then "redirecting"
the man command to look on that CD for the needed manual page???
--
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