Tim Werner wrote: > Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a > pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the > best way to find things out. > > I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For instance, if I > want to know about file permissions, it would be Really > Neat if there were a tool I could run and enter "file > permissions" into a search box, and get a list of matching > pages. > > I remember there used to be something called the Linux > Documentation Project. I'm sure they must still be working > on it, but even years ago there were more Howto's than you > could shake a stick at. I kind of expected there to be a > really cool downloadable manual by now. Maybe it's out > there and I just haven't found it yet. > > I get the impression that the Mandrake people are holding > out for some bucks, figuring people who won't pay for the > OS might pay for the docs. That's fine if that's what they > want to do, but there must be a mother lode of vanilla > linux info out there somewhere. The stuff I downloaded > from the Mandrake site was OK but a little disorganized and > obviously incomplete. > > Could someone maybe give a road map as to where the Good > Documentation is, and how to get it installed on one's > machine? Or could some of you give some of your own tips > on how you look things up? It can't all be word of mouth.
go to: http://www.google.com/linux enter: file permissions which returns quite a few relevent hits. -- Alan
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