On 2 Aug 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> Paul Seelig writes:
> > This functionality is given by the "apropos(1)" command. "man man" still
> > describes "man -k" though. I guess this counts as a bug...
>
> Why? 'man -k' works fine.
>
You are right, i had an alias "man -P less" for man which resulted
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
> I wonder why debian have man without -K option (searching
> through body of manpage, not only title), unlike RH or Suse
>
This functionality is given by the "apropos(1)" command. "man man" still
describes "man -k" though. I guess this counts as a bug
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> But is not enough yet, since it is not clear how I put the contents of
> the boot floppy into "file".
>
Try to understand this here:
--- snip
#!/bin/sh
# diskcopy
echo "diskcopy - physical copy of floppy disks"
echo -n "Insert
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Michael Perry wrote:
> Anbyody made a deb package for windowmaker 0.62? I noticed its been out
> awhile but the www.debian.org stuff does not show it whatsoever.
>
I've made some unofficial debs of the CVS version as of 2000-05-01. They
are in "ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote:
> I'm planning to install debian on my machine at home. Since potato is
> not finished yet I thought that I'd install slink (2.1-r4 there are two
> iso-images from December 1999 available).
>
> But I need to have an up to date version of at least Ada (gna
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Menno Slaats wrote:
> Does anyone have the exactly URL of it?
>
"ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/";.
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote:
> Is there any way to make apt-get list the URL of the files it would like
> to download?
>
>From "man apt-get(8)":
--print-uris
Instead of fetching the files to install their URIs
are printed. Each URI wi
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Blazej Sawionek wrote:
> can not umount my CD-ROM - it is reported as beeing used.
(...)
> I desperatly need this CD out _right_now_ so please if anybody knows
> the answer - give it ASAP.
>
Try "man fuser" and learn how to find out which process is still blocking
the device.
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, John Davis wrote:
> I have a zip disk which I would like to use for archive in Linux. Can I
> run tar so that it will take a 500 Meg archive and split it into 5 100
> Meg tar files? If so, how do I do this?
>
Have you already tried "man tar"?
To write a tar archive over mul
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, dinakar desai wrote:
> dpkg:error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb
> (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/etc/inputrc', which is also in package
> libreadlineg2
>
Same trouble here. I helped myself with
dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/a
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