From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 24 23:50:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA21213 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 23:50:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA21208 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 23:50:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA17716; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 18:20:44 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA01257; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 18:20:44 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980125182044.44599@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 18:20:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: mtg@dmi.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Manual? What manual? References: <34CAFB23.2847@dmi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <34CAFB23.2847@dmi.net>; from Michael T. Gray, met on Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 12:43:15AM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 12:43:15AM -0800, Michael T. Gray, met wrote: > Hi, > I keep seeing a reference to On-line documentation. If I am reading > these correctly, I should be able to pull up information on any command > by typing: man . Even simple commands like > respond with . Am I missing something?? The man pages, by the sound of it. Maybe you didn't install them. You can pull them off the CD-ROM with sysinstall. Greg