On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:05, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > The Other wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > Anybody else been struggling working through the Info and Man pages, > > trying to figure out how to navigate them? > > > > I'm still not sure how to browse the Man pages with anything other than > > up and down, but last night I had the insight to try something new with > > the Info pages. > > > > info info > > > > This got me a tutorial/lesson on how to use Tab, Space Bar, Backspace, > > and Delete keys. I haven't gotten through the lesson yet and still > > don't know how to return to the exact place you were before you > > Tab-Carriage Return'd into a new thread (you can always Delete key and > > Space key back to where you were), but I finally feel like I'm making > > progress with the Linux command documentation. > > > > For What It's Worth > > The Other > > > If you are trying to navigate man pages from the command line, or in an > Xterm, try "man less". The man command uses less as the default pager > on most Linux distributions. You can change it to something else by > setting PAGER. "man man" will give you more information about the man > command. There are also a couple of programs for reading man and info > pages under X. (Not sure what comes with Mandrake - I normaly use > command line tools for that.) > > Mikkel
you can use Konqueror or Galeon to read man pages. The formatting is nice and you can use Ctrl+F in order to find specific info. -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 ********* "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." Socrates
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