Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 08:11:32 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Gieger@aol.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Reference Message-ID: <11739.795629492@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 95 01:11:50 EST." <950319011148_53933382@aol.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
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