[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's built in in - at least in bash ;)
Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, and docs that appear via the "help" command (the data for which is stored somewhere where I haven't found it yet, although I haven't really looked...).
Help command is built in. Including its text.
Additionally, in some cases it appears that there may be information available via the "help" docs which is not in the HTML docs, and vice versa.
I recently engaged with "exim", and if it weren't for the fact that I found an obscure reference buried in the back yard in the dead of night, to the fact that there is an "exim-docs" package which needed to be loaded *in addition* to the exim docs which turn up in the "/usr/share/docs" directory, I would never have known it was there - and that package seems to be what turns up via the "help" command.
If the "help" command is only available in "bash", I'll have to do some negotiating... I'm a csh/tcsh nazi and hate anything that looks like the original Bourne shell on general principles (or no principles at all, FTM)
Please correct me if I'm wrong about any of this, since this is one area I've been meaning to explore and haven't Gotten Around To It
I think you're confused. Documentation is a much-ignored standard.
Some is in man format: man man THe GNU project likes info info info Some projects prefer HTML: links /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/index.html Others think postscript is cool gv /usr/lib/tk8.4/prolog.ps or even pdf xpdf /usr/share/cups/doc-root/cmp.pdf and there's aplways plain old documents: perldoc /usr/share/doc/openssl/doc/crypto/ASN1_OBJECT_new.pod or even text, sometimes compressed: zless /usr/share/doc/debian/FAQ/debian-faq.en.txt.gz sometimes not: /usr/share/doc/dillo/Cookies.txt
I'm shore there are more
Clear?
oh, sometimes the docs are included, somethins you need a -doc package. Use dpkg or apt-cache to find out. It's quicker and more accurate than asking the list!
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