Many commands also have "info" pages. Check out the info command, it might give you more ability to search around. --- stu wrote: > On Monday 03 July 2006 22:59, Craig White wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:21 -0700, betty wrote: > > > wow the 'top' command is pretty cool. > > > > ---- > > does your husband know what a geek you've become? > > ---- > > > > > there is so much stuff in the man pages, is there a table of > contents??? > > > then i can print out the toc and look for stuff of interest. > > > > ---- > > most man pages don't have such a thing - there really isn't a 'standard' > > methodology for that. > > > > The sheer volume of documentation is large... > > > > ls -l /usr/share/man/man5 > > ls -l /usr/share/man/man8 > > ls -l /usr/share/doc > > > > I think you will appreciate how much documentation is lying around > > > > Craig > > Try "man man" perhaps? That might give you an idea how to navigate the > pages. > Stu > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss