[99094] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Digest V98 #1437 man and info
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walter B Kulecz, PhD)
Thu Nov 12 09:41:41 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:28:37 -0600
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From: "Walter B Kulecz, PhD" <wally@wahine.jsc.nasa.gov>
In-Reply-To: <19981111000146.22510.qmail@mail2.redhat.com>
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>Man pages are fine as long as you have the time to wade through them (even
using
>grep often doesn't give you what you are looking for). Info pages are
awkward to
>use and suffer from many of the same problems man pages do. I'm plenty
familiar
>
The pain of browsing man and info pages when you don't know the exact name
of what you are looking for can be greatly reduced by downloading the tkman
and txinfo rpms from redhat contrib (assuming you are running X).
--wally.
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