Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:31:44 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to shut down this list? Message-ID: <41CB5560.3090102@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41CAFC5F.2030306@nbritton.org> References: <20041223101945.CB13C70468@smtp1.pacifier.net> <200412231128.18781.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> <41CAFC5F.2030306@nbritton.org>
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> Speaking of "help" I have always though this sould at least be an > alise to man (or "man man", or "man %foo")... but what I really want a > clone of the MSDOS 6.xx Help system of the same name, when you typed > in help with no args. it would load a "hypertext" curses program that > listed all the commands (like "whatis") and then you could select a > command for detail info about it. anyways... in the DOS world you > always type'd "help, "help foo", or "foo /?" for help so for most > people new to unix and freebsd whatis and man are unknow to them. I may have a simple solution to this: create a new man page named "help", in this man page is a brief (newbie oriented) one page guide on how to use the man pages and how to find commands to use (whatis / apropos, btw who came up with that name? I could not remember it if my life depended on it). this man page would then be aliased as "help". what do yea think?
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