"Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D." wrote:
> 3) Yes, I am aware of, and use, the "man" info (although it hadn't occurred
> to me to use "man man"), but as someone pointed out, it is usually the
> wrong direction since you want to know WHAT can do this more often than
> what can THIS do!
> 
> 4)
>   >Oh, and I'm sure that by "habitual terseness" you mean "admirable economy,"
>   >right?   :o)
> 
> Well, it meant that back when we were pecking at ASR33's, but it's a shame
> to waste the long file names available in Un*x!
> 
> Thanks again
> 

Just to add to the fact-finding tips (for people who don't know about it
or had forgotten it) the command:

apropos foo

Gives back a list of man pages that have something to do with "foo".

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Chris Brown -- Macintosh networking/Web development
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