See interspersed replies below.
At 11:07 AM 5/4/99 -0400, Ralph Stickley wrote:
>I've been using 'man' for information about commands. However, about half of
>the commands are telling me that the man pages are obsolete (see 'man ls'). I
>suppose there is a TeX command that displays the latest information, but I
can't
>seem to figure out what that is...
My ls man page doesn't mention being obsolete, but I know that many others
do (and my installation is a bit old by now). Often, they are still both
(mostly) correct and useful. But for others, try typing "info command"
replacing "command" with whatever you want to find out about. This will
access the gnu info system, intended by gnu to replace man page
documentation of its apps. It will display an info page is there is one or
the man page if there isn't an info page on your system.
>Also, is there a way to view html files from the command line ? (I haven't
>gotten my Xwindows upgrade installed yet :-)
Two ways I know of. The good one is to use lynx, a command-line-based
browser that comes with every Linux distribution I've checked. The bad one
is to use any text editor -- since html files are a type of text file, this
will (sort of) work, but you won't get the html formatting, so this approach
is strictly for emergencies in my book.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
762 Garland Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603
650.328.4219 voice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----------------------------------------------------------------
