Re: pclinuxos book

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:29:45 +0000, Jerry Peters wrote:

ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:27:43 -0700, Day Brown wrote:

On Mar 22, 1:54 pm, "philo" <ph...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The best way to learn Linux is to simply install it and use it. Refer
to the man pages as needed and ask for help on Usenet.
Years ago, when I started with Linux, I had a 486. And when I tried to
use the man pages, it was start the search and then go out for coffee.
It could take a half hour or more churning the drive looking for
something.

Even now, man dont have an index, so you dont know if there's a page
of anything similar. And be sure to use "man" and not "MAN". Sometimes
you find nothing, other times you are snowed with trivia.

You might try 'xman' - it has an index built in.

Or apropos or man -k.

That will give you a list of commands relating (more or less) to a
particular subject. xman, basically, gives you a listing of everything -
subdivided by group.
.

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  • Re: pclinuxos book
    ... to the man pages as needed and ask for help on Usenet. ... Years ago, when I started with Linux, I had a 486. ... Even now, man dont have an index, so you dont know if there's a page of ... You might try 'xman' - it has an index built in. ...
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  • Re: pclinuxos book
    ... to the man pages as needed and ask for help on Usenet. ... Years ago, when I started with Linux, I had a 486. ... Even now, man dont have an index, so you dont know if there's a page of ... You might try 'xman' - it has an index built in. ...
    (alt.linux)