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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!eldorado.net-tel.co.uk!usenet From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Subject: Re: Need to RTFM. But what FM? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: evening-star.net-tel.co.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <DH0K2M.39A@net-tel.co.uk> To: danny@qnet.com Sender: usenet@net-tel.co.uk (usenet poster) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: NET-TEL Computer Systems Ltd References: <46k65g$js9@mandolin.qnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 16:49:33 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Url: news:46k65g$js9@mandolin.qnet.com Lines: 11 danny@qnet.com (Dan Taylor) wrote: >to get it is a real pain! MAN pages are only there for you if you know >what command you need. I'd like a good book on administration (if there Aside from the answers given by other posters, have you discovered "man -k" (aka "apropos")? While not particularly sophisticated, this will often find you the command you need given a couple of tries at the keyword (try "man -k scsi" for example).