On Fri, Aug 13 at 05:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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?
unfortunately. eesh. what an awful state of affairs.
while innovation is good, standards do help us get along (and
bring newbies up to speed faster). in some ways i wish we could
pick one and ditch the rest.
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Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #67 from Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
Did you know MANPAGES ARE IN SEVERAL SECTIONS? For example,
user commands are in section 2 of the manual, and system
administration items are in section 8; to request a particular
section via "man" include it before the item:
man 7 regex
(otherwise you'll probably see regex from section 3 instead.)
To see ALL pages with a particular name, try
man -a regex
every matching manpage (from whichever section) will be
presented, one-by-one.
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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