On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Ceruti, Gerard G wrote:
> Thanks Mark
>
> Another question , is there an idiots guide to all the doco available via
> "man" ?,
That's a difficult chore, and depends on distro and what you've
installed. The command "locate man/man" should give you a list to work
on, but it might not be small:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate man/man | wc -l
14881
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And then there are info documents, so beloved by the FSF, but not from
what I can tell, many others, and HTML, and Red Hat seems to like text
files sometimes, so look in /usr/share/doc too.
You might also find some postscript files around:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate '/usr*.ps.gz' | wc -l
99
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate '/usr*.ps.gz' | head
/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.6/etc/refcard.ps.gz
/usr/share/doc/bison/bison.ps.gz
/usr/share/doc/bzip2/manual.ps.gz
/usr/share/doc/cdrecord/cdrecord.ps.gz
/usr/share/doc/debian/FAQ/debian-faq.en.ps.gz
/usr/share/doc/debian/FAQ/debian-faq.ps.gz
/usr/share/doc/gdb/refcard.ps.gz
/usr/share/doc/gnupg-doc/GNU_Privacy_Handbook/de/manual.ps.gz
/usr/share/doc/gnupg-doc/GNU_Privacy_Handbook/es/manual.ps.gz
/usr/share/doc/gnupg-doc/GNU_Privacy_Handbook/fr/manual.ps.gz
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> also are there any recommendations on technical books on Linux ?.
Just about anything published by Oreilly.
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