[PLUG] St00pid n00bie documentation question

[Rogan Creswick]

On 2/28/06, Michael M. <debian at writemoore.net> wrote:
> I tried accessing it with w3m, but the results weren't what I expected
> -- kind of a two column list of what looked like html files, but not the
> contents of those files, which is what I want to read.  I also tried, in
> Firefox, "file:///usr/share/doc/..." but that didn't work right either.

Generally, I just cd into /usr/share/doc/<package> and look at files
with ls & less, or emacs.

I don't *think* there is any standard format or index in there, but I
could certianly be wrong.

There is something in /usr/share/doc-base, it seems, but that looks
horribly incomplete (at least on the box I'm at now).

--Rogan

>   (Although, I was having a problem with FF at the time ... maybe I
> should try it again.)  Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how they
> access these docs?
>
> I use Debian GNU/Linux as my OS, Openbox as my WM, Firefox and w3m as
> web browsers, vim and gedit for text editing.  I also have Gnome
> installed (the full gnome-desktop-environment package, for those who use
> Debian and know what that means.)  So I probably have what I need, if I
> only knew how to use it.  KDE-oriented suggestions wouldn't be very
> helpful for me.
>
> BTW, I'm Michael ... this is my first post to the list ... I've been
> lurking for a few days.  I moved to Portland not long ago (though I went
> to high school in Hillsboro many years ago, so I'm not strictly speaking
> new to the NW) and have not yet been to any PLUG events, but I was very
> glad to find that there is a PLUG.
>
> --
> Michael
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