The WEB page option is a good one. For those interested, I am currently
building a series of HTML pages that provide links to documentation
provided with the RH5.0 installation (and installed on the hard disk) as
well as useful links and handy tips. I am also wanting to extend these
pages (using JavaScript/CGI) to provide an interface to the UNIX commands
such as "find", sed, "pppd" and simiilar.
The idea is that each Linux/UNIX command will have a HTML page that will
allow an easy, graphical (primitive?) introduction/interface for UNIX
newbies. Apart from building the command up (and then submitting it via a
CGI script, the web page for the command displays useful information
about the command (I am toying with actually displaying the man page for
it as well).
I am hoping that this format will allow nnon-gurus to use UNIX relatively
easily and quickly whilst also teaching them the native command set so
that (in time) they will be able to use the system more traditionally.
Apart from making it easier to get new users onboard the Linux ship, it
is also proving to be a jolly handy thing to have anyway! A single
reference to the rest of the online documentation alone is v. handy to
have!
I shall be placing the pages on the web as soon as I have gotten them
into a more publishable state in the hope that others will be interested
in this work. If anyone would like a sneak preview of what I have done,
please email me and I will send the pages to you.
Any help in constructing these pages would be very welcome. Perhaps if
RedHat takes up the idea proposed by David, it could be included in these
pages as well?
Brad
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Bradley Kieser
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courageous.
-- Robert Heinlein
---David Masterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> RPM is really great for managing packages under Linux. Its ability to
> download the package from an FTP site makes upgrades of individual
> packages relatively easy. What I'm surprised about is that the RedHat
> FTP site makes it so difficult to find interesting packages.
> Basically, if you don't know what a package does by its name, you're
> out of luck unless you download it so that you can do a Info Query on
> it (rpm -qi). This is expensive and time consuming.
>
> I'm surprised no one has suggested to RedHat a simple batch job to
> make it easier for people to find packages of interest. Off the cuff,
> if they could run a batch job like below, that would be really nice:
>
> # ================ Batch job
> cd /
> find . -name "Index.rpm_info" -print | xargs rm -f
> find . -name "*.rpm" -print | xargs geninfo.sh
> find . -name "Index.rpm_info" | xargs pr -f > /Master_Index.rpm_info
> # ================ [eof]
>
> # ================ Geninfo Shell
> for x
> do
> basename $x > $x_info
> rpm -qip $x >> $x_info
> cat $x >> `dirname $x`/Index.rpm_info
> done
> # ================ [eof]
>
> At least this way, one could go to the Redhat FTP site, download the
> RPM_INFO files in the directories of interest, and, by perusing those
> files, get a basic idea of each package in the directory and, perhaps,
> find a new package they'd be interested in trying out.
>
> What say you, Red Hat? Would you be willing to put this batch job
> into place? Extra credit if you do it with HTML and attach it to the
> Red Hat web-page... :-)
>
> --
> David Masterson
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