-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/09 10:09, rand...@songshu.org wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Johannes Wiedersich" <johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:02:54 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / > Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna > Subject: Re: Debian Linux > > rand...@songshu.org wrote: >> http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+rtfm&l=1 >> >> love that one, >> >> but there seems to be another program already for this >> http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man1/rtfm.1fun.html > >> In fact both are the same 'program'. You could install that man page >> with 'aptitude install funny-manpages', since it is included in debian. > > didn't notice until now, guess i did not bother to see the end result of the > "google" outcome ;) > >> It seems that there are many new users who prefer to read their man >> pages with their web browser. That's why they are online (and can be >> found with google). > > most new users don't now the existence of the automatically installed man > pages. > admittedly i also find it more readable in a browser.
I admit that instead of just doing 'man whatever', I pipe it through less with 'man whatever|less', which lets me get rid of the annoying text at the bottom, and replacing it with a ':' which I'm more used to from vi/vim. >> I guess after a while they will find out that they can get more accurate >> information for their system in an easy fashion if they just do 'man' or >> 'man -k' from the CLI. > >> Cheers, >> Johannes > > - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A) - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C++++ UL++++ P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D---- G e* h! !r y? - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkodBZUACgkQ1kZz3mRu0GqogQCgu44tvWEHF5VSptvJezLcZO6n b68AnAi0ocDZT/uhg+N2SkaFYCQGONvn =Phoe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org