On Friday, January 7, 2022 6:38:14 PM EST Ralph Katz wrote:
> On 1/7/22 03:01, gene heskett wrote:
> ...
>
> > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
> > underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but
> > clicking
> > the link does not do anything
On 1/7/22 03:01, gene heskett wrote:
...
I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking
the link does not do anything. Is it supposed to send the default browser
to that page? If so, where should I
On 2022-01-07, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
> I use the Shift + Right-click trick to get the menu in applications that
> seem to block Gnome Terminal's handling of the URL. I've found the
> trick useful with Mutt and Midnight Commander.
>
I see. I only experimented in a man page.
* On 2022 07 Jan 10:26 -0600, Curt wrote:
> On 2022-01-07, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> >
> > Did you try Shift + Right-click and select "Open Link" or some such in
> > your terminal? That is what works for me in Gnome Terminal.
> >
>
> This is what works for me in gnome-terminal:
>
> URL detection[
On Friday, January 7, 2022 6:41:45 AM EST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> cat /etc/debian_version
11.2
And now I see how it works since it does that way, thank you.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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On Friday, January 7, 2022 8:05:59 AM EST Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2022 05:59:36 -0500
> gene heskett wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > That is installed, but I can't find a configurator for it. And I am a
> > heavy user of mc but the file menu popup steals the F10 key, also a
> > pita. But there is
On Friday, January 7, 2022 6:16:21 AM EST David wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:59, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Friday, January 7, 2022 5:21:03 AM EST David wrote:
> > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:01, gene heskett
wrote:
> > > > debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday.
> > > >
> > > >
On 2022-01-07, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
> Did you try Shift + Right-click and select "Open Link" or some such in
> your terminal? That is what works for me in Gnome Terminal.
>
This is what works for me in gnome-terminal:
URL detection[edit]
GNOME Terminal parses the output and automatically de
* On 2022 07 Jan 04:01 -0600, gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday.
>
> I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
> underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking
> the link does not
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 08:13:42AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:09:38PM -, Curt wrote:
> > I'd rather just cut and paste the URI in the always-open browser, but
> > then again I've never had that old hacker spirit.
>
> That's what I do too. I like my terminals to b
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:09:38PM -, Curt wrote:
> I'd rather just cut and paste the URI in the always-open browser, but
> then again I've never had that old hacker spirit.
That's what I do too. I like my terminals to be relatively frill-free.
Obviously that's just my preference, and I know
On 2022-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 11:41:45AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:01:05AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>> > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
>
>> In a terminal: left click might not do anythi
On Fri, 07 Jan 2022 05:59:36 -0500
gene heskett wrote:
...
> That is installed, but I can't find a configurator for it. And I am a heavy
> user of mc but the file menu popup steals the F10 key, also a pita. But
> there is not an F10 checked in the settings for xfce or konsole that I can
> fi
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 11:41:45AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:01:05AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
> In a terminal: left click might not do anything but right click will bring
> up a menu f
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:01:05AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday.
>
> I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
> underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking
> the li
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:59, gene heskett wrote:
> On Friday, January 7, 2022 5:21:03 AM EST David wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:01, gene heskett wrote:
> > > debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday.
> > > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
>
On Friday, January 7, 2022 5:21:03 AM EST David wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:01, gene heskett wrote:
> > debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday.
> >
> > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
> > underscored if you click on them while reading the m
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:01, gene heskett wrote:
> debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday.
>
> I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
> underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking
> the link does not do anything. Is it sup
Greetings all;
debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday.
I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking
the link does not do anything. Is it supposed to send the default browser
to tha
On Du, 07 nov 21, 08:08:51, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Paul M. Foster wrote:
>
> > Folks:
> >
> > I'm sure everyone but me knows this, but I can't find a man
> > page for gcc.
>
> Everyone knows it ... but this question has still been asked
> one zillion times. I personally do not mind one bit you ask
On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 5:05 PM Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2021 31 Oct 16:27 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
>
> > The info command is what you want for gcc. You may need to install the
> > package for gcc info files. Another set of commands you might need info
> > files for are coreutils. Try "in
* On 2021 31 Oct 16:27 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> The info command is what you want for gcc. You may need to install the
> package for gcc info files. Another set of commands you might need info
> files for are coreutils. Try "info coreutils".
While info is probably installed, a much bett
Paul M. Foster wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I'm sure everyone but me knows this, but I can't find a man page for gcc.
> There must be some docs somewhere. First question: why isn't there a man
> page? Second question: what docs are available (or what package provides
> them)? Running Debian 11.
gcc-doc h
On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 4:07 PM Paul M. Foster
wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I'm sure everyone but me knows this, but I can't find a man page for
> gcc. There must be some docs somewhere. First question: why isn't there
> a man page? Second question: what docs are available (or what package
> provides them)?
On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 04:58:34PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> I'm sure everyone but me knows this, but I can't find a man page for gcc.
> There must be some docs somewhere. First question: why isn't there a man
> page? Second question: what docs are available (or what package provides
> them)?
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:43:58 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> on a recently upgrade to squeeze and still working the upgrade I notice
> my man pages have a scattering of non-englsh char scattered through
> them, that in places makes it difficult to read.
> . . .
> How can I get all english man pages?
Dear Kumar
> This does not answer your question, but does Debian actually have the
> C++ STL documentation as man pages? From what I can see, there is only
> the stl-manual package, which has all the documentation in HTML, but
> no other relevant packages. Please let me know if I have missed
> som
Dear Kamaraju,
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:56:57PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Is there a package in debian which contains the man pages for c++
> functions? I have already installed libstdc++6-4.4-doc . But it does
> not seem to have man pages for all the functions. For example, I would
>
> anybody knows a good search engine without any adds you can install locally
> your site that indexes the content of your html pages ?
Have you looked at swish (swish++ or swish-e, swish-e-dev) in the
repositories? I know people who use that to index stuff, and it's
pretty fast.
> how long does
randall wrote:
hi all,
lately i've been practicing my skills a little on building basic
websites and yesterday i had little to day so decided to re-build the
ubuntu manpages web site and adjust it a little so it a can be used
with debian.
we all know manpages.debian.net but that site, althoug
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:55:20AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:34:39AM +0200, Sylvain wrote:
> > I haven't seen section 7 for man which give all specifications.
> I wonder if its in manpages-dev?
not in etch:
zgrep "groff_man" ~/ftp.it.debian.org/debian/dists/Deb
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:34:39AM +0200, Sylvain wrote:
> I haven't seen section 7 for man which give all specifications.
I wonder if its in manpages-dev?
Doug.
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I haven't seen section 7 for man which give all specifications.
Thanks
2008/4/13 Javier Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello !
> >
> > I'm searching for man pages specification but I could'nt find it on the
> > net, most
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I'm searching for man pages specification but I could'nt find it on the
> net, most of the commands (.TH, .SH, .PP, \fB, \fP, ...) are comprehensible
> but I need full specification.
> Can you help me please ?
Coul
Am 2007-03-18 18:33:54, schrieb Douglas Allan Tutty:
> I'll have to work on writing man pages. Since I don't fancy learning
> roff just for that and I'm currently learning latex, I'll work on
> learning to write man pages.
Copy the skeleton from an EXISTING manpage.
It is Easy since you need onl
Douglas Allan Tutty writes:
> I'll have to work on writing man pages. Since I don't fancy learning
> roff just for that and I'm currently learning latex, I'll work on
> learning to write man pages.
The nroff required to write man pages is trivial. Just use another page as
a template.
> Is there
I had originally set locale to utf8 but have since reverted to
en_US.ISO-8859-1 (via 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'). The man pages are
still screwed up. Is there some further step I need to take?
I tried searching Debian mailing list archives but couldn't find the
posts you mention.
Thanks.
Cu
* Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030303 11:36 PST]:
> It's been a while since I set up an X configuration. The last time was on
> a potato machine. There is no XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and when I
> "startx" I get
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: ursr/bin/X11/X No such file or dir
> /usr/X
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:09:25PM -0500, Phil wrote:
>
> Woody - 3.0 just installed from CDs
> ~~
Well, then you 'apt-get install' xserver-xfree86 and finish the
configuresteps.
Also, check if 'xbase-utils, xfonts-base, xfonts-100dpi,
xfonts-100dpi-t
At 08:50 PM 3/3/03 +0100, you wrote:
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:26:26PM -0500, Phil wrote:
> It's been a while since I set up an X configuration. The last time was on
> a potato machine. There is no XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and when I
> "startx" I get
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: urs
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:26:26PM -0500, Phil wrote:
> It's been a while since I set up an X configuration. The last time was on
> a potato machine. There is no XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and when I
> "startx" I get
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: ursr/bin/X11/X No such file or dir
> /
on Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:25:40AM +, Karsten M. Self insinuated:
> on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:35:48PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>wrote:
> > on the system i'm bringing up, i can read manpages as root, but
> > not as myself. when i try, i get the following two errors:
> >
> > mikan
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:35:48PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> on the system i'm bringing up, i can read manpages as root, but not as
> myself. when i try, i get the following two errors:
>
> mikan~> man man
> (null): can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are cor
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:15:02AM -0700, ben wrote:
> On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote:
> > > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved?
> >
> > Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remo
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:13:12AM -0700, D. wrote:
> > I using testing and I suspect that sometime
> during a
> > upgrade I have hosed up my man pages db? Anyway
> if I
> > open xman and then manual page and look for a man
> page
> > for example on
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:39:55AM -0700, ben wrote:
> thanks for the hints. i'll set about those methods and see how it
> goes. i've been googling on the subject and it seems like this issue
> goes back a few years. i saw one post from 6/98. is this going to be
> sorted any time in the near futur
On Friday 04 October 2002 01:52 am, Colin Watson wrote:
[snip]
>
> Does 'update-alternatives --config gconftool' sort it out? Make sure to
> keep a record of the current state of the /etc/alternatives/gconftool*
> symlinks and the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/gconftool before
> doing tha
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:15:02AM -0700, ben wrote:
> On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote:
> > > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved?
> >
> > Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remo
On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote:
> > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved?
>
> Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remove them or get them to point
> somewhere that exists.
>
> Cheer
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote:
> is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved?
Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remove them or get them to point
somewhere that exists.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTE
-- D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Thursday, 03 October 2002, 07:13 AM -0700):
> I using testing and I suspect that sometime during a
> upgrade I have hosed up my man pages db? Anyway if I
> open xman and then manual page and look for a man page
> for example on mp3burn, I can see it in the li
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:13:12AM -0700, D. wrote:
> I using testing and I suspect that sometime during a
> upgrade I have hosed up my man pages db? Anyway if I
> open xman and then manual page and look for a man page
> for example on mp3burn, I can see it in the list, but
> when I select it,
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:12:42AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 08:10:18AM -0700, Larry Smith wrote:
> > Is there something like that I haven't done to get all
> > the man and info help pages installed?
>
> Chances are you haven't installed the packages containing them. If
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:10:18 -0700 (PDT)
Larry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I notice that the man pages and info help cover far
> less topics than on my old RedHat system.
>
> On RedHat I had to run a thing called "makewhatis" to
> unpack and install all the man pages.
>
> Is there somethin
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 08:10:18AM -0700, Larry Smith wrote:
> I notice that the man pages and info help cover far
> less topics than on my old RedHat system.
>
> On RedHat I had to run a thing called "makewhatis" to
> unpack and install all the man pages.
makewhatis on Red Hat doesn't unpack and
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 12:25:38PM -0400, Seneca wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 08:10:18AM -0700, Larry Smith wrote:
> > Is there something like that I haven't done to get all
> > the man and info help pages installed? Or is Debians
> > help system just not as complete?
>
> "apt-get install man
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 08:10:18AM -0700, Larry Smith wrote:
> I notice that the man pages and info help cover far
> less topics than on my old RedHat system.
>
> On RedHat I had to run a thing called "makewhatis" to
> unpack and install all the man pages.
>
> Is there something like that I haven
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Rafe B. wrote:
>
> Hi. Nother newbie windoze-user question.
>
> I know this has been asked before, apologies
> and thanks in advance.
>
> Is there a windoze util that will convert
> Linux man pages to RTF or PDF or Postscript?
>
> Specifically, what is the format of man
On 17-Nov-01 Rafe B. wrote:
> Is there a windoze util that will convert
> Linux man pages to RTF or PDF or Postscript?
>
> Specifically, what is the format of man pages?
> TeX/roff /troff/other ??? Is there a
> HOWTO for man-page format (There must also
> be a nifty indexing scheme, right?)
>
* Rafe B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> Is there a windoze util that will convert Linux man pages to RTF or
> PDF or Postscript?
why would you want a windoze tool to do that?
> Specifically, what is the format of man pages? TeX/roff /troff/other
> ??? Is there a HOWTO for man-page format (T
I have solved this. On transferring the system I created a mount point
for /tmp with inappropriate permissions; 0755 instead of 1777. User
"man", who runs the man program, had no write permission to /tmp.
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, George Karaolides wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After transferring my Debian p
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:20:30AM +, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a new Debian user (been using other distributions for
> about 5 years) and I seem to be missing some man pages on
> my new Debian system. I'm missing manpages for ptrace,
> termios, fcntl and others.
>
> The c
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man2/ptrace.2.gz
> manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man2/ptrace.2.gz
>
> so looks like you need an
> `apt-get install manpages-dev`
I had that, I just needed to add /usr/share/man/ to my
MANPATH.
Cheers,
Erik
--
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man2/ptrace.2.gz
manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man2/ptrace.2.gz
so looks like you need an
`apt-get install manpages-dev`
HTH,
-Jon
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 03:06:52PM -0400, paul wrote:
> Mike wrote;
>
> I don't know the specifics of man internals, but I don't have to. If you
> update to Potato's man-db package, I believe it will fix the problem
> without having to upgrade the whole system.
Thanks. I'll try that, a
Mike wrote;
>Yes, Slick with Potato and up upgrades. I'll eventually do a dist-upgrade,
> but I'd like to know exactly what is causing the problem. I thought I
> understood how man works, but apparently not because I don't understand this.
>
I don't know the specifics of man internals, but I do
Yes, Slick with Potato and up upgrades. I'll eventually do a
dist-upgrade,
but I'd like to know exactly what is causing the problem. I thought I
understood how man works, but apparently not because I don't understand this.
Mike
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:56:29AM -0400, paul wrot
No. I'll check when I get home. However, I have ls colours on, and I
didn't see that file shaded as a symlink.
Mike
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:38:18PM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> Have you checked, if makeindex.1.gz is not a link to undocumented.gz?
>
> On S
Hello Michael,
Have you checked, if makeindex.1.gz is not a link to undocumented.gz?
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
> Hey guys. I'm having some problems with my manpages. I have my MANPATH
> environment variable set to /usr/man:/usr/share/man. Now, under
> /usr/share/man/man1 I
Are you running Slink? I had a similar problem after installing some
Potato packages. Upgrading the rest fixed the problem.
Michael wrote;
> Hey guys. I'm having some problems with my manpages. I have my MANPATH
> environment variable set to /usr/man:/usr/share/man. Now, under
> /usr/s
Mark Brown wrote:
>
> If you've got man pages in /usr/share it's probably because you've
> already done a partial upgrade and have potato's libc6 alreay (certainly
> in this case where dpkg and apt seem to have been upgraded).
umm, i have dpkg 1.6.12, apt 0.3.18 and libc6 2.0 7. i've tried to
's
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:57:32AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > If you're using Slink with some Potato packages installed the best thing
> > to do is probably to upgrade to the Potato version of man-db which
> > changes /etc/manpath.config appropriately.
> It depends on
Mark Brown wrote:
> If you're using Slink with some Potato packages installed the best thing
> to do is probably to upgrade to the Potato version of man-db which
> changes /etc/manpath.config appropriately.
It depends on potato's libc6, so that's not ideal.
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> it need to view the man page by man apt-ge -M /usr/share/man it's so
> troublesome for that...do I need to manually moe all the man pages
> from /usr/man to /usr/share/man and update the man path suit the new
> direc
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 10:47:08PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 6 May 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:
> > It seems as though the man page of both dpkg and apt-get are not installed
> > anymore. In dselect I couldn't find anything related to either of these
> > that isn't installed?! Plea
On Sat, 6 May 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:
> Hi list
>
> It seems as though the man page of both dpkg and apt-get are not installed
> anymore. In dselect I couldn't find anything related to either of these that
> isn't installed?! Please help, I need them truly!
>
> TIA
> Sven
>
>
> --
> Un
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"Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems as though the man page of both dpkg and apt-get are not
> installed anymore. In dselect I couldn't find anything related to
> either of these that isn't installed?! Please help, I need them t
There is no man or info page in the gif2png package.
Martin
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> I just used dselect to install gif2png
> After installing it, I found no man pages.
>
> $ man gif2png
>
> Is there no man page for gif2png or is it in info format. I tried
>
> $ info g
Man pages package is under Documentation section in stable on
www.debian.org, and is called
manpages
Andrew
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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Jim Harsh wrote:
> At 02:49 PM 6/22/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
>
> >tried to reinstall. I get an error when dslect is tring to get
> >man-db_2.3.10-64.deb from
> >dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/doc stating that "No such file or dircetory."
> >
> I found man-db_2.3.10-65.
At 02:49 PM 6/22/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>tried to reinstall. I get an error when dslect is tring to get
>man-db_2.3.10-64.deb from
>dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/doc stating that "No such file or dircetory."
>
I found man-db_2.3.10-65.deb on ftp.debian.org and it installed fine.
Why is dsel
Well, this is the root of my question, I guess ... should I use dpkg to
unpack them, or what? They're simply ar files, or so I've been told,
but I have little experience with dpkg internals.
In case it does come down to extracting the manpages, you can use
`dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile' to pi
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote:
: Doesn't dwww already do this, and more?
It may; I don't know :) Does it? If so, then someone's done the hard
work already!
:
: You'd have to manually extract all the manpages for the debs you
: don't have installed... But otherwise, I don't think there
Doesn't dwww already do this, and more?
You'd have to manually extract all the manpages for the debs you
don't have installed... But otherwise, I don't think there is any
work involved.
Jeff
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 02:38:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> I have a strange request ... here goe
On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, Paul Serice wrote:
> Where did the Section 2 man pages go? They had been located in the
> "manpages" package.
They were moved to manpages-dev so that people who don't need the syscall
info don't have to install it.
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> Greetings all,
>
> two quick questionsi installed debian on my box and when i'm running a
> shell & trying to look up stuff on man pages, i can not. Did i miss
> something in the installation process How can i remedy this
Man pages are not part of the base installation (from 7 flo
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I expose my problem whith "man" when I try help about some commands.
>>
>> Supose that I want search "xman" help.
>>
>> If I do "man xman" I get help about "xman". But If I open the xman
>> application and search for help about
> Hi.
>
> I expose my problem whith "man" when I try help about some commands.
>
> Supose that I want search "xman" help.
>
> If I do "man xman" I get help about "xman". But If I open the xman
> application and search for help about it, I don't get help.
Well, you _can_ get help on xman in xman
> When groff formats a man page file like 'bash.1',
> the formatted main text will be centered.
>
> Do you know how to change this so I can wrap the text
> at a certain column (e.g. at column 75).
...
> But when printing it on paper I'd rather save paper
> and not hold a heavy stack of paper!
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, larry ives wrote:
> I just used the Debian installation for linux and it was a pleasure =
> compared to slackware! There are a couple of things that don't work =
> however.
> I can't seem to execute a man page session. When I look for the ma
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:54:07 CDT larry ives ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I just used the Debian installation for linux and it was a pleasure =
> compared to slackware! There are a couple of things that don't work =
> however.
> I can't seem to execute a man page session. When I look for the man
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