[Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

[Simon van Meygaarden]

Greetings, Folks.

One of the things I really like about FreeDOS 1.2 is the incredible
Help browser: a perfect way to browse through the documentation, and,
in my opinion, much better then the man-pages in Linux.
In "How to use the FreeDOS help" I found a reference to an Apropos
command, and a Whatis command, which seemed very helpful in trying to
find out what FreeDOS has to offer. However, these commands are not
available in either BASE or FULL installation, FDIMPLES doesn't
mention them, and I can't find them in the Packages.

So the question is: am I doing something wrong, and, if not, how do I
add these commands to my system?

Take care,
Simon

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Re: [Freedos-user] Would someone help me with my subscription ?

[Jim Hall]

> On 6/11/2017 3:27 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote:
>>>  Form security (reCAPTCHA) missing, please submit again
>>   Nowhere on the original page there was a captcha field.
[..]
>>  Would someone with admin clearance in these lists
>> please keep me subscribed ?

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Ralf Quint  wrote:
> This is a general issue with SourceForge, I got this, in several emails,
> for about a dozen mailing lists that I am subscribed to via SourceForge.
> Nothing that anyone here (Jim) would have to do to keep you subscribed,
> it's all you...


Yes, there's nothing I can do on my end as list admin. Each subscriber
has to revalidate on their own.

I understand this is to comply with upcoming changes in data privacy
rules in the EU.

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Re: [Freedos-user] Would someone help me with my subscription ?

[Karen Lewellen]

Actually, if you are having issues with the Captcha, create a support 
ticket.

they should know it is presenting problems.
Karen


On Sun, 11 Jun 2017, Ralf Quint wrote:


On 6/11/2017 3:27 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote:

 Form security (reCAPTCHA) missing, please submit again

  Nowhere on the original page there was a captcha field.

 This looks like another contrivance to keep out users of old browsers.
 ( I am using Firefox 2.0.20 for Windows98)

That happened occasionally for me as well, though on while resubscribing
but on downloads, and I am using the latest version of Firefox on
Windows 10...


 Would someone with admin clearance in these lists
please keep me subscribed ?


This is a general issue with SourceForge, I got this, in several emails,
for about a dozen mailing lists that I am subscribed to via SourceForge.
Nothing that anyone here (Jim) would have to do to keep you subscribed,
it's all you...

Ralf

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Re: [Freedos-user] Would someone help me with my subscription ?

[Ralf Quint]

On 6/12/2017 7:05 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Actually, if you are having issues with the Captcha, create a support
> ticket.
> they should know it is presenting problems.
> Karen 
Well, the problem with the ReCaptcha is that it is not a problem with
the reCaptcha...

I did not get those messages when I had to resubscribe, but on random
downloads from SourceForge, without ever being presented with a Captcha
dialog.
And as it is kind of random when those error/warning messages pop up,
and they also no impede the downloads in anyway, it's hard to reproduce
and and therefor fixable, I guess...

Ralf



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Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

[Ralf Quint]

On 6/12/2017 3:14 PM, Simon van Meygaarden wrote:
> Greetings, Folks.
>
> One of the things I really like about FreeDOS 1.2 is the incredible
> Help browser: a perfect way to browse through the documentation, and,
> in my opinion, much better then the man-pages in Linux.
> In "How to use the FreeDOS help" I found a reference to an Apropos
> command, and a Whatis command, which seemed very helpful in trying to
> find out what FreeDOS has to offer. However, these commands are not
> available in either BASE or FULL installation, FDIMPLES doesn't
> mention them, and I can't find them in the Packages.
>
> So the question is: am I doing something wrong, and, if not, how do I
> add these commands to my system?
First time I hear about those programs, and they are not something
elementary to (Free)DOS, they are rather Linux commands/programs.
You don't really miss out on anything on your setup. The author of the
Help system might be able (or not) to shed some more light on this...

Ralf

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