At 07:11 AM 12/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:

Echoing Peter Peres' concern about the inadequacy of Linux documentation: [snip] Midnight commander (and linux generally) has been a big disappointment: I have yet to find any documentation (man pages or anything else), and unlike Norton Commander the command-line (bottom) box doesn't automatically look for files in the selected directory - I have to issue a cd command.

Windows software isn't much better at times (especially the freeware/shareware). If you need additional information about something installed on your Linux machine there are a couple of things you can do. (Using mc as an example...) Use the package management system to find out what files were installed on the machine. (ie. rpm -ql mc for a system using RPMs). This will list all the files installed for the package. Look for files in 'doc' directories (ie. /usr/doc, /usr/share/doc) and/or files ending in .htm or .html which may be web based documentation. The 'man' command is more for just a short description on what a given program will do and what command line options it will accept that affect its behaviour. If you need much more information on a program than that related to the command line then a man page is not what you want. At that point its time to check the Linux Documentation Project site or do a web search for more detailed information (assuming there isn't an official site for the program). Cheers! Kevin. (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/) Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 |"What are we going to do today, Borg?" E-mail:kcozens at interlog dot com|"Same thing we always do, Pinkutus: Packet:ve3syb-XXPEJ3/fxIc at public.gmane.org#con.on.ca.na| Try to assimilate the world!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | -Pinkutus & the Borg -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml