On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:25:05PM +0100, oxy wrote: > > > > Without knowing your skill level, the respondent could only guess at how > > much you know and how specific he needed to be, so he may have assumed > > you were a newbie who wasn't actually asking what you meant to ask. > > Ok, the fact is that i do not have the command `man` in my system > (2.6.18.dfsg.1-17etch1). > > `locate man | grep '/man'$` gives only the man dirs.
have you tried using the command 'man'? > > `locate apropos` and `locate whatis` give nothing. I normally use 'man -k' instead of apropos Also note that there are other man pages front-ends, such as konqueror, nautilus (use the "man:" protocol) and emacs. > I just found it strange, as well as the incapability to set xterm font size. > Im still open for suggestions ... and this is my first contact to > debian and gnome. xterm is not gnome. Maybe the font is set to a core (non-xft) font? -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
