Hello, My personal opinion:- Flaming only wastes B/W and does nothing to help the next 'Newbie' who hasn't joined the list yet. Why be nasty? A single line "man('xzy')" reply direct to the poster (not via the list) will get the message across if you want to help - delete it if you don't..
Having said that, when I followed the instructions (from Debian.org) for installing slink on my platform and finally got it to load, and logged in, I found that I didn't have 'man'. It took more RTFM'ing and figuring out the various things dselect was telling me before I tried looking for a discrete 'man' package to D/L and install. At the moment, having done some work on AIX, UnixWare and SCO, but never before having installed any flavour of Unix, I'm wondering if there is a Debian equivilent of 'smit' or 'sysadm' - no don't tell me - this is one I know I'll figure out eventually, but the point is, right _now_, I just don't know what I should be looking up or where. Bye, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk