Add to your soap-box: the standard 'man' is disregarded, you are left to use (non-standard) info.
There's a man -k call, I haven't found an info -k equivalent.
Yes, there's a great calling for thankless man page writing in the *nix world.
Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner@gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838
wam@HiWAAY.net 09/13/05 08:24AM >>>
Chris Mauritz wrote:
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Perhaps I'm just extremely lucky, but I've not run into this magic 1TB barrier that I see bandied about here. Heck, if you're willing to roll the dice on Hitachi drives, you can get a terabyte these days with just 2 hard disks in the array with RAID0 or 3 disks with RAID5. Unfortunately, a lot of the documentation and FAQs are quite out of date which can lead to some confusion.
Grrrrrrrrrrr, 1 of my *long time* complaints w/ Linux (any Linux, apparently) is that nobody bothers to keep man-pages/FAQS/other-documentation up to date. The cron(8) on my SuSE 9.2 P4 is dated 1996 (!!!). I lay this at the feet of the distro folks myself, but none of them have taken it up :-) ....
Brian T. Brunner wrote:
Add to your soap-box: the standard 'man' is disregarded, you are left to use (non-standard) info.
There's a man -k call, I haven't found an info -k equivalent.
Yes, there's a great calling for thankless man page writing in the *nix world.
Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner@gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838
wam@HiWAAY.net 09/13/05 08:24AM >>>
Chris Mauritz wrote:
<snip>
Perhaps I'm just extremely lucky, but I've not run into this magic 1TB barrier that I see bandied about here. Heck, if you're willing to roll the dice on Hitachi drives, you can get a terabyte these days with just 2 hard disks in the array with RAID0 or 3 disks with RAID5. Unfortunately, a lot of the documentation and FAQs are quite out of date which can lead to some confusion.
Grrrrrrrrrrr, 1 of my *long time* complaints w/ Linux (any Linux, apparently) is that nobody bothers to keep man-pages/FAQS/other-documentation up to date. The cron(8) on my SuSE 9.2 P4 is dated 1996 (!!!). I lay this at the feet of the distro folks myself, but none of them have taken it up :-) ....
I have tried to find tools to convert info pages to man, but no luck. I *think* there are tex-to-man tools, but the tex data (from which info documents normally come) isn't always installed .... The combination of man & less is about the best text-based info system I could dream up. Oh well ....
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