On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 02:50:25PM -0500, w trillich wrote: > Maury Merkin wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for the wvdial tip. I've successfully been using pon and poff so far > > (like three hours) but I'll keep this note around for future reference. > > > > And, yes, I know all about the "man" and "info" docs as well as the HOWTO > > stuff. The problem is figuring out what to look up. Like I've been using > > Linux (first Slackware and then RH) for over five years now but have never > > used or even heard of 'pon' 'poff' or 'wvdial' prior to my move to Debian > > (the day before yesterday). What in the world would make me enter "info > > pon" if I had never heard of 'pon?' > > EXACTLY. me too! :} > > (sometimes 'apropos gizmo' or 'whatis gizmo' can start you in the right > direction, though. then there's 'find / -name \*gizmo\* -print' if > 'locate gizmo' doesn't work.)
An advantage of a packaging system is that, sometimes, related stuff
ends up in the same package.
If, for example, you were wondering what was included with the PPP
configs:
$ dpkg -S `which pppd` # returns "ppp"
$ dpkg -L ppp # lists files in package "ppp"
$ dpkg -L ppp | egrep '(/bin|/sbin)' # filters for executables
...which will show a number of programs you might want to investigate
further:
/usr/bin/pon
/usr/bin/plog
/usr/bin/poff
/usr/sbin/chat
/usr/sbin/pppd
/usr/sbin/pppstats
/usr/sbin/pppdump
The information isn't always painfully obvious, but it's usually
obtainable with some degree of effort. The "SEE ALSO" section of man
pages can also be helpful.
Cheers.
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