On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:07:51AM -0400, A. Tuazon wrote:

> Could someone please help me and tell me how do I get the "man" command
> working or installed into my system.  Thank you !

'man' is in the package 'man-db' - install this via 'apt-get install
man-db'.

> P.S. I checked the /usr directory and I did find the directory of /man there
> as well as the subdirectories of /man : /man1 , /man5, and /man8.  These
> three directories had filed that ended in .gz

yes, these are the manual pages, which you can view with 'man'
command. they are compressed with 'gzip', thats why the end in '.gz'.

         moritz
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