Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

2017-06-14 Thread Jiri Wackermann
Hi there On 2017-06-14 01:02, Simon van Meygaarden wrote: The first thing a new user will see when FreeDOS boots, is the message "Type HELP to get support on commands and navigation". When one types HELP, the first line of the Main Help page says "For information on using Help, press F1...".

Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

2017-06-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Jiri Wackermann: I'm not an active user of FreeDOS, so I'm only > a listener on this channel, just for curiosity. > Regarding 'apropos' and 'whatis' and their relatives: > these commands are related to manual pages, it's all > Unix philosophy. If you have a Linux around, try > man

Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

2017-06-13 Thread Ralf Quint
On 6/13/2017 4:02 PM, Simon van Meygaarden wrote: > 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

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

Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

2017-06-12 Thread 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