"John Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How does one use the "how-to" files that get loaded into the system? I know
> how to start up a man page, but I've never seen the "how-to" files used.
> I've been using Linux since mid-January and that's one thing that's slipped
> by me... I don't even know where the how-to files are located, much less
> what's covered! :-)
1 - type "locate HOWTO | less"
1a - if locate says something about the database being out of date
type (as root) "updatedb" then do step 1
2 - you'll see all the HOWTOs, choose the one you want to look at and
type "q" to exit from the listing
3 - type "less /path/to/HOWTOs/<howtofile>-HOWTO.gz"
Obviously don't type the quotes in any of the above steps.
The HOWTOs are usually somewhere in /usr/doc. On my system (Slackware
3.6) they are in /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/
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Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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