What I'm planning on doing is spending some time with the life saver icon. If
I find that further explanation into something is needed then I'll do [man
<whatever>].
Will that help, or what do you suggest? I'm going to read [man man] right now
in fact.
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 07:28 pm, Mike Starke wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:02:15PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> At last! A ray of light in my clouded mind!
>
> Mike:
> One of the things I did when first learning *nix was periodically
> sit down with my favorite beverage and read man pages.
> Some I read from top to bottom, others, I just read the description
> and bailed onto the next.
>
> If you find yourself adventurous, do something like:
>
> cd /bin; ls
> man <whatever grabs your eye>
>
> cd /sbin; ls
> man <whatever grabs your eye>
>
> cd /usr/bin; ls
> man <whatever grabs your eye>
>
> cd /usr/sbin; ls
> man <whatever grabs your eye>
>
> That kept me occupied for quite some time, and I learned
> quite a bit. Also, there may be some docs on your system.
> Try:
>
> cd /usr/doc; ls
> cd <whatever grabs your eye>
> Most of these files are just plain ASCI text, so you
> can just:
> less <whatever grabs your eye>
> or
> zless <whatever grabs your eye> (for gzip'd doc files)
>
> Hopefully this info should help you out a bit.
>
> v/r
> -Mike
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