From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 6 17:29:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91B815062; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:29:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id RAA12839; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:29:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA07168; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:29:30 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA09531; Tue, 6 Jul 99 17:29:28 PDT Message-Id: <37829F68.A0193C6E@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 18:29:28 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Chris Costello , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'rtfm' script References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Doug wrote: > > > I'm confused about this script. How does it differ from 'apropos'? > > > > It differs in that it _uses_ apropos (or 'whatis' if you > > specify the -e flag), as well as a Texinfo search, as well as a > > FAQ search, using the FAQ pages at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/. > > It's meant to be an information center for those just getting > > started with FreeBSD. > > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). And link it to whatthehell(1). -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message