From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 24 15:52:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.svr.pol.co.uk (mail4.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F26937B5C2 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmdupx@yahoo.com) Received: from [195.92.198.123] (helo=mail17.svr.pol.co.uk) by mail4.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 135ymk-0001a1-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 23:52:22 +0100 Received: from modem-63.daeron.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.150.191] helo=jmdupx.surreynet.com) by mail17.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 135ymk-0005sr-00 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 23:52:22 +0100 From: jmdupx@yahoo.com To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 23:52:48 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: content / list of manpages X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "man man" was not exactly what I meant, since that gives options and switches for configuring the output or the display when you man a command, which is fine if, say, I wanted to print a batch of stuff out or do whatever the other options give you choice of. what I really meant was, what manpages are there, meaning when I type "man command", where can i get a list of all "command" for which there is a manpage that I have in my distribution ? (if you can do that) is there a file extension in freebsd (like in DOS where you have *.com or *.exe) which tells you for example that a file is executable or will run or whatever if you enter it at a command prompt, as opposed to just containing information ? this would be a useful way for me to slowly feel my way around the system using the resources at hand. thanks in advance To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message