On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 02:37, christopher neitzert wrote:
> it will show a list of each application beginning with a.
> (provided you are using a decent shell -- if not use bash or tcsh) 
> (take that mark!)

Hey, I use bash! Amber and Nathan haven't quite talked me over to zsh
just yet.

> If that doesnt tell you enough then you can type man $app 
> man will tell you everything there is to know. 

Don't for get info pages too. info <command>

I'm a man page person myself.

> It may seem like alot to learn, yet like windoze and DoS command line,
> once you use it a few times its difficult to loose.

That it is. But you are building a "toolbelt" by learning all the funky
UNIX commands too.  Remember, you can stack commands, pipe, redirect,
and end up with a new tool.

Mark

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