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Subject: Re: Reference 
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 08:11:32 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> Is there a online help or reference file for commands in
> FreeBSD 2.0? A detailed help with small examples would
> be great.

At this point in time, the best you can hope for are really these three
facilities:

man <command>	- get information about a specific command

apropos <topic>	- part of the man package, it at least gives you some idea
		  of where to look for a man page by keyword (try it).

info		- read the info docs provided by the GNU project for
		  things like the C compiler,  make, etc.  Unfortunately,
		  this facility was rather sparse until just a month or two
		  back so using it under 2.0R won't be very rewarding! :-(

Ultimately, there should be much better (and more obvious) on-line help
than this, we just haven't gotten around to providing it yet!  This is not
to say we'll continue dropping this ball - I have Big Plans(tm) in this
department.

					Jordan