Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere"

2017-04-19 Thread davidson
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: I've had two instances recently. I've found the "immediately" needed information, but they are samples of more generic problems. 1. Today's problem was easily solved. I had seen a post discussing an application of the "tree" command. When I tried it,

Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere"

2017-04-19 Thread David Wright
On Wed 19 Apr 2017 at 08:59:18 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > I've had two instances recently. I've found the "immediately" needed > information, but they are samples of more generic problems. > > 1. Today's problem was easily solved. I had seen a post discussing > an application of the "tree" c

Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere"

2017-04-19 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:10:01 +0200, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've had two instances recently. I've found the "immediately" needed > information, but they are samples of more generic problems. > > 1. Today's problem was easily solved. I had seen a post discussing an > application of the "tree" co

Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere"

2017-04-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > However that is not always the case. Some months ago I got a "command not > found" message for a command that had a man page (do not recall the specific > command). It turned out it was one utility command among many provided by a > package with an unrel

Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere"

2017-04-19 Thread Brian
On Wed 19 Apr 2017 at 08:59:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > 2. There are many commands whose man pages point to using the "info" > command. I personally find that format more annoying than useful. I would > prefer to access the TeXInfo formatted document and convert it locally to > desired forma

Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere"

2017-04-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 08:59:18AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've had two instances recently. I've found the "immediately" needed > information, but they are samples of more generic problems. > > 1. Today's problem was easily solved. I had seen a

Re: Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere"

2017-04-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 08:59:18AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I've had two instances recently. I've found the "immediately" needed information, but they are samples of more generic problems. 1. Today's problem was easily solved. I had seen a post discussing an application of the "tree" comma

Efficiently finding information 'known' to exist "somewhere"

2017-04-19 Thread Richard Owlett
I've had two instances recently. I've found the "immediately" needed information, but they are samples of more generic problems. 1. Today's problem was easily solved. I had seen a post discussing an application of the "tree" command. When I tried it, I got "command not found". In _this_ case i