Lee Elliott wrote: > > Hello, > > My personal opinion:- Flaming only wastes B/W and does nothing to help > the next 'Newbie' who hasn't joined the list yet. Why be nasty? A > single line "man('xzy')" reply direct to the poster (not via the list) > will get the message across if you want to help - delete it if you > don't..
Who flamed a newbie? I must have missed it. To those who can't stand newbies and their questions: Please SHUT THE HELL UP, and let the rest of us deal with the newbie. > > Having said that, when I followed the instructions (from Debian.org) for > installing slink on my platform and finally got it to load, and logged > in, I found that I didn't have 'man'. It took more RTFM'ing and > figuring out the various things dselect was telling me before I tried > looking for a discrete 'man' package to D/L and install. At the > moment, having done some work on AIX, UnixWare and SCO, but never > before having installed any flavour of Unix, I'm wondering if there is > a Debian equivilent of 'smit' or 'sysadm' - no don't tell me - this is > one I know I'll figure out eventually, but the point is, right _now_, I > just don't know what I should be looking up or where. The man package is far to large to fit on the base system. I had exactly the same problem when I installed Linux for the first time. 'man' was one of the few unix commands that I knew (thanks to a book I bought), but after installing it wasn't there. Ouch. Sorry, don't know about 'smit' or 'sysadm'. What is it you are trying to look up? -- Ed C.