At 11:13 AM -0700 8/5/99, Philip Stripling wrote:
>>SNIP<
>   To be specific, is there anything like a table-of-contents to, say, the
>   packages that we have for netbsd? Unfortunately, the habitual terseness of
>   Unix people makes the program names uninformative, and I notice that most
>   of them seem to lack a statement of purpose in the README.
>
>   Is anything like a "Users' Guide" available?
>
>I assume you know about the man pages and don't find them helpful?
>
>For those that haven't used the man pages, they are not _always_ models of
>clarity, but try typing from the command line
>man man
>and read the man pages on man pages. Then try your favorite program to see
>what man has to say:

Since no one else has mentioned it remember that there is an intro entry
for each section.  Try

man 1 intro
man 2 intro
. . .

and you will get a guide to "what they all do" for the stuff in that
section.  Of course the original query was about packages, not standard
stuff.

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