Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

2017-06-13 Thread Simon van Meygaarden
Greetings, Folks. Ralf > First time I hear about those programs, and they are not something elementary to (Free)DOS, Jiri > All this is essentially for people who already know what's there or what should be there, not really for novices. I respectfully disagree. -smile- The first thing a new

[Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

2017-06-12 Thread 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

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Codename?

2017-06-09 Thread Simon van Meygaarden
Greetings, Folks. A simple question, if I may: does FreeDOS 1.2 have a codename? Wiki tells me all versions uptil 0.8 had codenames, but from then on, none! I really like things having names, so right now I am using MINNESOTA for FreeDOS 1.2 (also testing REDMOND -smile-) but I gladly switch to