** Reply to message from Carl Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:45:29 -0400
> On Tue October 16 2007 11:15:41 am Stan Goodman wrote: > > I did <find -name "mplayer*"> from "/" as root, and turned up nothing > > recognizable. > > Try 'locate <string>' as normal user, e.g. in this case 'mplayer': > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> locate mplayer > <... snipped lines 1 thru 35>: > /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/cs/mplayer.1 > /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/de/mplayer.1 > /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 > /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/es/mplayer.1 > /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/fr/mplayer.1 > /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/hu/mplayer.1 > /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/it/mplayer.1 > /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/pl/mplayer.1 > /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/ru/mplayer.1 > /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/zh/mplayer.1 > > And "DOCS" seems to 'shout' at you ;-) Not a good example. You found the man pages, which I found too. I wanted the HTML files (which I have now). The man files are not good for learning a program; they are great as a reference manual for key strokes, command options, and the like. As I wrote in another message, I must not be handling "locate" correctly. <locate mplayer>got me only an oldish outgoing email message. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel If it weren't for C, programs would be written in BASI, PASAL and OBOL. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
