On Tuesday 25 May 2004 10:05 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > 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.
> 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 If you want to save the man pages for printing, for instance as or even as pdf files try this: man -t lilo > lilo.ps which will make a nicely formated printable document, you may get a complaint sometimes, but its not a problem. To convert it to a pdf file just: ps2pdf lilo.ps (you have to have ps2pdf installed) Just thought I'd throw this out for consideration, something I learned on the list. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:31pm up 5 days, 53 min, 2 users, load average: 0.53, 1.89, 2.16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Be warned that typing \fBkillall \fIname\fP may not have the desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user. (From the killall manual page) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Live - From Virgin Radio UK Oasis - All Around The World
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