Where to go now

[Jared]

I've done the man command and just by looking at some of the stuff its
helped. This install was about a 30 meg download and I didn't find a lot of
docs. When I did the man command followed by vi I didn't get anything but
saw the vi text editor refferenced in the man entry on shutdown. What does
this mean?

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Toby Fisher
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:29 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Where to go now


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jared wrote:

> Hello I got zipspeak from the ftp sight since after messing arround with
> partitions and not setting the write one active I didn't get redhat
> installed. I think I will use zipspeak for a little while and install
debian
> on my 4 gig d drive since it is smaller then redhat if I like it. My
> question is where to go for doccumentation on the packiges included. I've
> been listening to the look at linux series on acb radio and that has
helped
> but where do I go for stuff like how to use the vi text editor? Also if
> someone could help me out with where to get emacs and the voice engines
for
> software speack I'd appreciate it.

Okay, well I'll start at the end.

I'm not really an expert on Emacs etc, but Emacs itself, you'd probably be
best to get it from the Slackware ftp site, since you've already installed
Zipspeak, thisshould minimise any compatibility issues etc.  As for speech
engines etc, your best bet is probably to take a look on freshmeat.net, if
you put emacs or emacs-speak into the search engine you should have some
joy.
This is one thing I'd recommend for anything you need to find, even
documentation, as freshmeat will often guide you to a package's web site
which will contain the latest information.

Also, for more general documentation on a range of Linux issues, try
http://www.linuxdoc.org

In addition, I don't know about Zipspeak because I've not used it, but on
my system /usr/doc has loads and loads of directories for individual
packages, as well as 2 great ones called Linux-HOWTOs and
Linux-mini-HOWTOs (note the capitalisation).  Last, but definitely not
least, you can always try typing man <command>.

Hope this helps.

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