Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:48:57 -0400 From: Jan Knepper <jan@smartsoft.cc> To: Bruce Petro <bpetro@usa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is there a summary of man stuff? Message-ID: <39C7FB69.B2190624@smartsoft.cc> References: <381765155.969405532704.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com>
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Try apropos 'whatever' or whatis 'whatever' Guess that will help you. Don't worry, be Kneppie! Jan Bruce Petro wrote: > I've looked at man man and I don't see any option to display a list of all available man pages list single line summaries. > > IE: Something like this that I snitched from whatis man but a nice alphabetical list or category list of all man pages available: > catman(1) - preformat man pages > man(1) - format and display the on-line manual pages > man(7) - quick reference guide for the -man macro package > manpath(1)- determine user's search path for man pages > pod2man(1)- translate embedded Perl pod directives into man pages > ... on and on, a long list ... > > So I guess my question is as follows: > 1. Is there a way to request a man summary like this? > 2. Is there a HTML site somewhere that perhaps gives a summary of the standard man pages either alphabetically or even better a summary of man pages ordered by categories! > > THANKS! > > ______________________________________________ > FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com > Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Jan Knepper Smartsoft, LLC 88 Petersburg Road Petersburg, NJ 08270 U.S.A. http://www.smartsoft.cc/ http://www.mp3.com/pianoprincess Phone : 609-628-4260 FAX : 609-628-1267 FAX : 303-845-6415 http://www.fax4free.com/ Phone : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) FAX : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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