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10-20-2002, 06:12 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Distribution: SuSE 8.1 Pro
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How to Read a Troff Man File
OK I am still showing my newbieness. I've download and installed "The GNU Krell Monitors". Yeah I was able to do something right. I'd give you a screen shot but I'm afraid I would crash my system  Anyway I wanted to read the man files on this program but when I click on the the files gkrellm.1 and gkrellmd.1, which are both listed as Troff documents there are no programs associated for these files. Which program should I use to open these files?
This begs me to ask another question. How does Linux keep track of which program is associated with each file. Is there a seperated attribute of the files system that is not visible to the end user?
Thanks Steve
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10-20-2002, 06:35 PM
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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Plymouth, England.
Distribution: Mostly Debian based systems
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Does typing man gkrellm not work?
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10-20-2002, 06:59 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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I did not know about that command but I did try it. I received "No manual entry for gkrellm.1" or "No manual entry for gkrellmd.1"
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10-20-2002, 07:09 PM
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No... you don't need to .1 or d.1
Have you got GKrellM working? If so, then chances are that the manual pages have also been installed. Try just man gkrellm
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10-20-2002, 07:20 PM
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LQ Newbie
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Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Duh, Works great now  Now I just have to work my way around them! Thanks for the help!!
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10-20-2002, 07:22 PM
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No worries! Just remember that the man pages (man something) are very, very useful, if a little cryptic at times. You can also access the man pages right from this very site:
http://man.linuxquestions.org/
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10-20-2002, 07:27 PM
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LQ Newbie
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Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Are there instructions on how to get around in the man pages? Like exiting, searching for a word, etc.
Thanks
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10-20-2002, 07:35 PM
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q to quit
arrow keys (up and down) to scroll lines
space to scroll down pages
As for searching, not sure. I don't know if SuSE supports apropros which can search through the man pages for a given keyword... works in Mandy, but not tried it in anything else.
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