I find the man pages marginal as far as helping. Sometimes (small percentage of the time) they provide the info that I need. Most of the time, I'm still left wondering. Examples would help immensely. Steve
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Linux Commands When CMS HELP first came out, the group I was with built a process to format and print all of the Help files into our own books. It would be nice if there was a process to format and print all of the MAN pages that are resident on an arbitrary linux system (z or x86). /Tom Kern David Boyes wrote: > That's going to be complicated because every program you install becomes a > new command, and some commands could be books all to themselves. There's > also the complication that there are several variations to how documentation > for Linux commands is prepared and maintained. All packages are *supposed* > to include man pages, but that can be a bit spotty for some of the commands > maintained by smaller groups or individuals. > > The man command will display summaries for each command and details. Some > commands use the info command, and some supply HTML pages (which I > personally detest). > > Example: 'man ls' will display a manual page for the ls command. If you're > not sure of the exact command, try 'man -k' and a keyword, eg 'man -k mail' > will get you all the commands that contain the keyword 'mail' somehow. > > The commands that use 'info' (usually things originating in the GNU project > like GCC) work with similar syntax, but they bring up a full screen browser > to navigate the documentation. Info tends to be used for more complex > applications, like emacs. The emacs documentation is a full-scale book of > it's own. > > Your best bet is a good Unix book like the O'reilly sysadmin guides. You can > usually get copies of them at better tech bookstores (alas for Computer > Literacy....sigh... RIP). > > - db > > > > > On 8/14/08 5:39 PM, "Alyce Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does a manual exists that has all the SuSE Linux commands listed running >> on the Z series with really good examples? >> >> Thanks for your support, >> Alyce >> >
