Incoming from Shawn: > With regards to documentation, I've seen a similar issue as what John is > saying. I've seen this problem with Suse, Mandrake, and RH. Basically, it > seems that some of the documentation (and it is invariably the stuff you are > looking for) doesn't seem get set up in the help system. That said though > the documentation does get installed - typically to the /usr/share/doc > directory (though I could be wrong, or it could be distro specific). The
If your system's set up to catalog it (updatedb), you can "locate blah", and it will show you every file on the system with "blah" in the file or directory name. Another nice one is "apropos blah" which will list all manpages related to "blah." If you prefer point and click: xman -notopbox -bothshown & gives you a GUI interface to the system manpages. > even just a "cat /usr/share/doc/applicationName/documentFile | less" at the Useless use of cat award! :-) If the file is gzipped (.gz), you can just: zless file.gz -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
