Re: [LUG] first e-mail from Linux

[Rick Timmis <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Using Man pages can be confusing and unclear at times. Usually a good 
place to start is to use apropos to find out what man data there is for 
a command. Often you will see the command name follow by a bracketed 
number. This indicates what section of man it is in and relates to Docs, 
Programming, Using etc..

Man pages are concise, and expect you to understand the syntax. When I 
start using Linux, people used to say things like man rpm. I used to 
reply "What F'ing use it that if I don't understand it , I suppose your 
going to say man man!"

The approach I took in the end was open up the man page in one term, 
open up another term an start typing commands from the man pages. This 
can be a great challenge. if you are logged in as root you can time how 
long it takes to destroy your system!

Do this from a user and it'll be ok.

Have Fun

Cheers Rick

jon davey wrote:

> On Thursday 19 Dec 2002 6:32 pm, Alex Charrett wrote:
>  
>
> > On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 23:32, Rick Timmis wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > jon davey wrote:
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Hi, all.  This is my first mail from Mandrake, thought that had to be>
> > > >        
>  > >listworthy.  I'm damned if I can install softwear from cd though.  I need 
> a 
>  
>
> > > > package manager...don't I.
> > > > Jon Davey
> > > >        
> > > Get a coffee, and some chocolate sit down click the Xterm icon and type>
> > >      
>  > man rpm, read from top to bottom. and you won;t need a package manager>
>  > any more
>  
>
> > > Rick.
> > >      
> > rpm is a package manager, as it dpkg etc.  Hence rpm standing for "Red
> > Hat Package Manager"
> >
> > Alex.
> >    
>
> I've had a look over the man page but found it difficult as I'm not familiar 
> with the syntax/format whateveryoucallit. eg if I was trying to explain 
> something here using commands opened and closed with ['s but also enclosedc
> ommand examples in ['s it may be a little confusing as to which were part of 
> what. I think I might print out the rpm man page.
>     Take no notice of my clock BTW.
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Rick Timmis
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