From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 07:13:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04588 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 07:13:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04583 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 07:13:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zydbB-0003Mq-00; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:13:19 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id PAA03869; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:11:53 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09059; Fri, 8 Jan 99 15:11:51 GMT Message-Id: <3696202D.DF3D2455@uk.radan.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:11:41 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Graeme Tait Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> <36961215.CC2@echidna.com> <369615BA.3AC65BD0@uk.radan.com> <3696196D.35A6@echidna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graeme Tait wrote: > > Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > Graeme Tait wrote: > > > > > > BTW, apropos returns capsule command descriptions like what I am > > > suggesting - is there a complete list of this form in a single file > > > somewhere? > > > > > > > man intro > > Maybe I'm dense, but where is the list? > Doh, you're not dense, it's me. I've just checked and the FreeBSD ``man intro'' doesn't do it. I remember this man page from when I started using Unix (Sun's) and just quoted it. FWIW, the Sun version does this... INTRO(1) USER COMMANDS INTRO(1) LIST OF COMMANDS Name Appears on Page Description comb sccs-comb(1) combine SCCS deltas comm comm(1) display lines in common between two sorted lists compress compress(1) compress or expand files, display expanded contents continue csh(1) C shell built-in commands, see csh(1) cp cp(1) copy files cpio cpio(1) copy file archives in and out cpp cpp(1) the C language preprocessor crontab crontab(1) install, edit, remove or list a user's crontab file crtplot plot(1G) graphics filters for various plotters crypt crypt(1) encode or decode a file etc., etc. > -- > Graeme Tait - Echidna > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message