From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 16 13:27:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24569 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:27:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24553 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #3) id 101Zdt-000K1H-00; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 17:36:13 +0000 Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 17:36:13 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Charlie Roots Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/share/* question Message-ID: <19990116173613.A76918@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charlie Roots wrote: > I'm kinda new to unix, > I just wanna ask how to make use of all the goodies > in the /usr/share/* > like *..ascii, pappers.ascii.gz, *.me, *.mk etc... *.mk are used as needed by make(1) you can read *.ascii files with more(1), or any text viewer. gzipped ones can be read with gzip -dc foo.ascii.gz | more *.me are to do with groff's -me macros. groff -me foo.me | more, I think. > another question, > What's the straight forwards way to print > *.html, *.ps on my HP-Deskjet 690-C Look at ghostscript5, in the ports collection. > Network News : isis.dynip.com (Read, Post, Xfer) __|/'''/ This doesn't imply you're running an open news server does it. If so, don't do that. Please. Just don't do it. Only allow authorized people to post, or the spammers will love you forever and everyone else will hate you forever. And you don't want thazt. > pgp key : finger root@isis.dynip.com Not quite as important, but it's not a good idea to do everything as root. Create a proper account for yourself. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message