Re: discovering debian ...

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:25:05PM +0100, oxy wrote:

Without knowing your skill level, the respondent could only guess at how
much you know and how specific he needed to be, so he may have assumed
you were a newbie who wasn't actually asking what you meant to ask.

Ok, the fact is that i do not have the command `man` in my system
(2.6.18.dfsg.1-17etch1).

`locate man | grep '/man'$` gives only the man dirs.

have you tried using the command 'man'?


`locate apropos` and `locate whatis` give nothing.

I normally use 'man -k' instead of apropos

Also note that there are other man pages front-ends, such as konqueror,
nautilus (use the "man:" protocol) and emacs.

I just found it strange, as well as the incapability to set xterm font size.
Im still open for suggestions ... and this is my first contact to
debian and gnome.

xterm is not gnome. Maybe the font is set to a core (non-xft) font?

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