On Saturday 22 October 2005 07:14 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Hi
>We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to
> collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are
> as follows
>
> 1) man pagename
> 2) In konqueror, man:pagename
> 3) In vim, Man pa
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:01:18PM -0500, Ephemeral root wrote:
> More often than not the first few pages of a google search
> will provide you with better documentation than most man
> pages. Sadly many man pages lack real world examples that
> would help clarify otherwise abstruse or overly abstr
The KDE and Gnome help applications (khelpcenter and yelp) both show
the man pages. Useful if you are not sure exactly what you are looking
for.
Later, Seeker
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Titus Barik wrote:
> info is nice, but I much prefer pinfo, which is basically the same thing
> with colors.
One up on pinfo for KDE users is "info:/" in the Konqueror URL box.
Eyecandy for info pages, it's amazing how things have changed. :-)
Somewhere is a list of nifty URI's like these:
syste
Another way to read man pages is by installing man2html, and then
entering the address http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html in any web
browser.
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kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
Hi
We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to
collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are
as follows
1) man pagename
2) In konqueror, man:pagename
3) In vim, Man pagename
What about others?
thanks
raju
Or per
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:01:18PM -0500, Ephemeral root wrote:
> pages. Sadly many man pages lack real world examples that
> would help clarify otherwise abstruse or overly abstract
> explanations.
I think that's because the man pages aren't really for new
users. The documents in /usr/share/doc a
Michael Marsh wrote:
info pagename
info is nice, but I much prefer pinfo, which is basically the same thing
with colors.
Regards,
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Quoting kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi
>We all know how important it is to read man pages. I
> would like to collect info on different ways to read the
> man pages. My
> favorites are as follows
>
> 1) man pagename
> 2) In konqueror, man:pagename
> 3) In vim, Man pagename
>
>
On 10/22/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to
> collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are
> as follows
>
> 1) man pagename
> 2) In konqueror, man:pagename
> 3) In vim, Man pagename
>
>
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 08:14:43PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Hi
> We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to
> collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are
> as follows
>
> 1) man pagename
> 2) In konqueror, man:pagename
> 3) In vim,
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