** Reply to message from Carl Hartung
On Tue October 16 2007 11:15:41 am Stan Goodman wrote:
I did
from "/" as root, and turned up nothing recognizable. Try 'locate <string>' as normal user, e.g. in this case 'mplayer':
carl@linux:~> locate mplayer <... snipped lines 1 thru 35>: /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/cs/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/de/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/es/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/fr/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/hu/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/it/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/pl/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/ru/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/zh/mplayer.1
And "DOCS" seems to 'shout' at you ;-)
Not a good example. You found the man pages, which I found too. I wanted the HTML files (which I have now). The man files are not good for learning a program; they are great as a reference manual for key strokes, command options, and the like. As I wrote in another message, I must not be handling "locate" correctly. <locate mplayer>got me only an oldish outgoing email message. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel If it weren't for C, programs would be written in BASI, PASAL and OBOL. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org