On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under the > belt. For a true newbie, many ar totally inpenetrable.
Agreed, but I'm not a newbie and IME, man pages are almost useless for "how do I do x." apropos doesn't work because the man pages call it y. If someone tells me "use the abc command" then I can use man to find out how it works. -- Richard Urwin
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