On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: > Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be > doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/"tech support" stupid > questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the > man pages. However, I absolutely loath reading anything of any length in > a console window. Is there a more "user friendly" (read as newbie > friendly) way for one to be able to read the man pages? > > Thanks in Advance! > > Amy
I'm lazy - so generally I create a postscript file out of it - sometimes a PDF to peruse at my disposal; man top | col -b > top.ps The I can ps2pdf the document and just muck around with it as I wish. (like ps2pdf top.ps) -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
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