Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 13:49, rikona wrote: > Hello Aron, > > Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 3:25:39 AM, you wrote: > > AS> RTFM OK but the real newbie is having trouble finding TFM > > Gee - I thought I was the only one with that problem. :-) Took me six months to figure out that when a browser o

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-22 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:47, Aron Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:57, rikona wrote: > > Hello yankl, > > > > Sunday, September 21, 2003, 5:36:27 PM, you wrote: > > > > y> hence the end of my e-mail "man -k". Have any one done their home > > y> work? > > > > Yes, but it was not very helpf

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:57, rikona wrote: > Hello yankl, > > Sunday, September 21, 2003, 5:36:27 PM, you wrote: > > y> hence the end of my e-mail "man -k". Have any one done their home > y> work? > > Yes, but it was not very helpful, as I mentioned. > > y> By typing "#man -k lilo" one can see

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-22 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:03 pm, rikona wrote: > Hello Richard, > > Sunday, September 21, 2003, 3:03:45 AM, you wrote: > RU> apropos doesn't work because the man pages call it y. > > Yep - another part of the problem. M$ help suffers from the same > problem, although their overall integration of hel