Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-17 Thread listcomm
>>I recently engaged with "exim", and if it weren't for the fact that >>I found an obscure reference buried in the back yard in the dead of >>night, to the fact that there is an "exim-docs" package which needed >>to be loaded *in addition* to the exim docs which turn up in the >>"/usr/share/docs" d

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Aug 13 at 05:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Documentation is a much-ignored standard. > > Some is in man format: > man man > THe GNU project likes info > info info > Some projects prefer HTML: > links /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/index.html > Others think postscript is cool

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-12 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's built in in - at least in bash ;) Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, and docs that appear via the "help" command (the data

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-12 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If the "help" command is only available in "bash", I'll have to > do some negotiating... I'm a csh/tcsh nazi and hate anything that > looks like the original Bourne shell on general principles (or no > principles at all, FTM) > > Please correct me if I'm wrong about an

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-12 Thread Stefan Nicolai O'Rear
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:04:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It's built in in - at least in bash ;) > > Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm > posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are > split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, a

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-12 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:04:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It's built in in - at least in bash ;) > > Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm > posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are > split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, a

Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-12 Thread listcomm
> It's built in in - at least in bash ;) Not only that, but (correct me if I'm wrong - that's why I'm posting this) it appears that the docs for some things are split into docs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, and docs that appear via the "help" command (the data for which is stored somewh