Oliver....one more thing. Navigate to /usr/doc and start reading. Alan "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote: > > > > >what is in it? > Sat, 27 May 2000 10:07:33 > > How did all of you solve this problem when you were a newbie? I have > hundreds of unknown to me programs on this Mandrake...I discover what > they do by accident. > > Is there a listing of programs and RPM's decoded into > something that will enable me to determine the purpose? or do I have > to search them out one by one, only to discover that the program is > not something I have a use for? > > I just found one that calculates "molecular weights"..I am > sure it is an excellent program, but I am also sure there are many > here that I could get more use from., if I only knew about them? > > To me it appears that program names and RPM listings are > cryptic, the name SAMBA does not explain much....electric eyes? blue > fish?...where is it explained?. > > thank you > Olly P > Biloxi
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