Where to go now

[Toby Fisher]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Jared wrote:

> 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?

Ok, vi is a bit of an exception to most doc rules.

If you want to look at the man page, try man elvis, and don't be put off
by hat it says about X11.

If you want to read the help, well from within vi you can type :h enter,
but this probably isn't the best way to read it.  Since it's written in
html, you could use lynx, with a command like
lynx file://localhost/usr/share/elvis-2.1_4/elvis.html
not forgetting your favourite command-line switches.
N.b. this is the file called by the help from within vi, so I know it's
the right one.

Vi is just an aliased command or symlink to elvis, by the looks of it.
Actually it's pretty cool, if, for any reason, you shut don uncleanly, you
get an email from Elvis for each file you had open, telling you how to
recover it, neat.

As for grabbing other docs, if you look on the slackware ftp site, in the
slackware-8.0 archive, you should find a directory under Slakware called
something doc1, and I think another one called faq1.  I'd recommend
downloading the contents of these, and then for each file ending in .tgz,
run the following as root:

installpkg <package_name>

Good luck.

Cheers.

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