Helmut Metzdorf hat gesagt: // Helmut Metzdorf wrote: > Hi, > > considering myself still a novice to linux i spend lots of time > reading documentation. first i complained about most of it beeing > compressed text but soon i found a solution (zcat | xless).
A even better solution is to setup less to use a lesspipe. Please read /usr/doc/less/LESSOPEN.gz for this. Then you can read gzipped files, have a look in .tar.gzfiles or in .deb-files with a single command: less. > but the laborous method of tangling through several subdirectories was > something quite itching, so next i tried to write a menu-sourcefile to > provide faster access, but soon found it to be a tantalus-task when i > got an idea of the total volume even with a rather spartan installation. > > so i started thinking about how a programm schould be designed to do > the job. and now i'm rather content knowing there's no text-document > (plain or compressed) in /usr/doc (and all subdirectories) further > away than two mouseclicks - neatly ordered to their appropriate > section (devel, libs, admin, utils etc.) and sorted. > [...] You can get easy access to all debian documentation by installing package dwww plus a webbrowser and a webserver. dwww is a program "designed to do the job" you want. -- __ __ Frank Barknecht ____ ______ ____ __ trip\ \ / /wire ______ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / ____/ / / / // ____// /\ \\ ___\\____ \ /_/ /_____/ /_/ /_//_____// / \ \\_____\\_____\ /_/ \_\