When CMS HELP first came out, the group I was with built a process to
format and print all of the Help files into our own books. It would be
nice if there was a process to format and print all of the MAN pages
that are resident on an arbitrary linux system (z or x86).
/Tom Kern
David Boyes wrote:
That's going to be complicated because every program you install becomes a
new command, and some commands could be books all to themselves. There's
also the complication that there are several variations to how documentation
for Linux commands is prepared and maintained. All packages are *supposed*
to include man pages, but that can be a bit spotty for some of the commands
maintained by smaller groups or individuals.
The man command will display summaries for each command and details. Some
commands use the info command, and some supply HTML pages (which I
personally detest).
Example: 'man ls' will display a manual page for the ls command. If you're
not sure of the exact command, try 'man -k' and a keyword, eg 'man -k mail'
will get you all the commands that contain the keyword 'mail' somehow.
The commands that use 'info' (usually things originating in the GNU project
like GCC) work with similar syntax, but they bring up a full screen browser
to navigate the documentation. Info tends to be used for more complex
applications, like emacs. The emacs documentation is a full-scale book of
it's own.
Your best bet is a good Unix book like the O'reilly sysadmin guides. You can
usually get copies of them at better tech bookstores (alas for Computer
Literacy....sigh... RIP).
- db
On 8/14/08 5:39 PM, "Alyce Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does a manual exists that has all the SuSE Linux commands listed running
on the Z series with really good examples?
Thanks for your support,
Alyce
