From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 9 12:31:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10311 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:31:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10306 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:31:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zz52O-0007bo-00; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 20:31:12 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id UAA01947; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 20:30:26 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20674; Sat, 9 Jan 99 20:30:23 GMT Message-Id: <36976575.65AC31EB@uk.radan.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:19:33 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Graeme Tait Cc: justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk, Greg Black , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition References: <199901081848.SAA21095@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> <36966EA2.2FF4@echidna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graeme Tait wrote: > > Justin Murdock wrote: > > > > > Graeme Tait wrote: > > > > > > > > > > BTW, apropos returns capsule command descriptions like what I am > > > > > suggesting - is there a complete list of this form in a single file > > > > > somewhere? > > > apropos "" > mylist > > Greg Black wrote: > > > > > Why do all this {snipped], when a simple "apropos 1 8" will give you a > > paged list of all commands in sections 1 and 8? > > Thanks - those do the trick! > > Now to categorize the commands ... > > (The above usages of "apropos" are not what you would call obvious from the > man page!) > That's useful info to know. Perhaps the manpage for apropos needs expanding? > -- > Graeme Tait - Echidna > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message