Re: [Sheflug] man pages

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "ross" == ross  <ross.h [at] ntlworld.com> writes:

    ross> On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Chris J/#6 wrote:
    >> man 5 crontab
    >> 
    >> :)
    >> 
    >> Chris...

    ross> ta..... now i do feel daft:-)

Yeah, well, unix usage is often kinda cryptic; you'd think there would
be a -s#, --section=# option, but there isn't (except as a degenerate
form of the --sections option, which actually sets a search path).

man man
info info

etc are typically available and useful.

Also, on Linux systems using GNU standard software, most utilities support
the --help option.

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