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Re: Reading docs.
Hi people--well,from my initial "simple" question ,I`ve now been introduced
to 2 excellent utilities--mc and dwww and I have to agree with Ben Hall--it`s
pretty damn good!!!.Many thanks to all those who responded to my initial
question .
jeff
On Saturday 19 January 2002 01:33, Ben Hall wrote:
> Wow! This is fantastic!
>
> I've been a Linux user for about four and a half years now, and a Debian
> user for about one and a half, and somehow I've missed dwww all the way
> through.
>
> Thanks so much for pointing it out! I just installed it, and it works
> _great_ I'm sure I'll be using it much now.
>
> Boy, Debian may look a little rough at first glance, but it's a very
> solid, cohesive operating environment when you digg a little deeper.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben
>
> On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 20:16, Michael Montz wrote:
> > Just for information purposes, because all the other suggestions work
> > great, Debian has an app called dwww that is used along with a web
> > server to serve up all docs on your machine. Including info and app
> > docs, man pages, and howto's.
> >
> > Using apt-get to install it will suggest installing the apache web
> > server. I installed a small light weight web server named boa before
> > installing dwww.
> >
> > Whenever I need to find docs or howto's on my machine, I enter localhost
> > in my browser and there they are.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Michael
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 14:39, rod wrote:
> > > Without having to 'explode' the file you can use 'mc'. After finding
> > > the 'gz' file just use the normal F3 key to view the file. Works quite
> > > nicely.
> > >
> > > Rod
> > >
> > > jeff hill wrote:
> > > > Hi people.
> > > > Really showing my newbieness here ,but how does one open .gz
> > > > documentation in /usr/share/docs?
> >
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