From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 18:56:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344C137B422 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn202-ras62.screaming.net [212.188.157.202]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA29544 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:59:34 GMT From: John Murphy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a summary of man stuff? Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:56:06 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Petro wrote: >Thanks to everyone who replied - I've learned: > >1. Sending mail from mail.com does not wrap. I need > to hit enter myself and wrap it. (good) way to go... >2. Mike wins the most helpful answer! See text below. I wish I knew Sed that well... >3. Several folks seem to be thinking an initial man page > may be missing for lame-brains like me, hopefully someone > can add one. >4. Finally, there is xman if you have xwindows that is more > helpful. I did not know that... >5. One possible addition for someone - produce some summary=20 > and subject-related html pages for this (or share where=20 > there are some). Install the doc distro. You then have the entire manual in many languages and lots of other good stuff as well, all in html. Good luck, John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message