On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: > > [snip] > > I've been thinking about the entire newbie/documentation thing a lot > > lately. There has to be a way for newbies to get into the > > /usr/doc/*/*gz files before they know about gzip, zcat and zless. And > > there has to be a way of saying RTFM without being rude. > > Midnight Commander (mc) could fill this role. As it happens the current > version is broken to the extent that it does not know how to access .deb > files. There is a bug report on this which is a month old but mc is still > useful as it can handle .gz files and the like. > > The bug is easily fixed, BTW. mc_3.5.17-1.deb has two copies of mc.ext. > One is right and one is wrong. The "right" version is in the wrong place. > If you have this problem mv /etc/mc.ext /etc/mc/
Good idea. Could a simple question "Are you new to Debian/GNU Linux?" be added to the script for the first time run, so that access to mc comes in immediately for the newbies. I guess it would require mc, curses and some of the docs moving into base though, or for the answer to the question to run dpkg (dpkg-ftp) after the system is installed. Then mc macros could be added for the newbie, so that they have access to those docs. Opinions anyone? John Foster -- You are in a maze of twisty little HOWTOs, all gziped. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
