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Re: [opensuse] Commands and Documentation (was: A request to Attachmate/Novell
- From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:07:50 -0500
- Message-id: <1323882470.6575.8.camel@linux-dauq.site>
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 11:22 -0500, Anton Aylward wrote:
+1
Do *not* use the web for such information; use the *local*
documentation. That more-or-less is guaranteed to correspond to the
command as installed [build options, version, etc..] on your
workstation.
Or just run "xman" and you can browse the system documentation. [it
used to be possible to see manual pages in yelp (GNOME Help), but that
seems to have gone away].
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Linux Tyro said the following on 12/14/2011 09:46 AM:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Bob WilliamsI should think that for all except the distribution-specific commands,
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<http://doc.opensuse.org/products/opensuse/openSUSE_114/opensuse-reference/cha.new.bash.html#sec.new.bash.start>But that article is for 11.4 suse, all commands equally work with 12.1
openSUSE also?
thinks like zypper, yum, apt-get, the command documentation you referred
to about ubuntu would apply.
After all, the distributions are about packaging and added value, not
about core functionality.
+1
Do *not* use the web for such information; use the *local*
documentation. That more-or-less is guaranteed to correspond to the
command as installed [build options, version, etc..] on your
workstation.
Or just run "xman" and you can browse the system documentation. [it
used to be possible to see manual pages in yelp (GNOME Help), but that
seems to have gone away].
--
System & Network Administrator [ LPI & NCLA ]
<http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com>
OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us>
Adam Tauno Williams
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