interesting experiment.

[Janina Sajka]

You can use man man to find out about man. Yes, there's a man
page for man itself.

And, you can do:

man man -k

to find out about the commands for which there are man pages.

Also, in Red Hat at least, the default pager is less, so Diedra's
syntax is superfluous for Red Hat users.

If your experience is mostly with DOS or Windows, you should read
the HOWTO written especially for new users of Linux who come from
Microsoft environments:

http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html


On Sun, 19 May 2002, Deedra Waters wrote:

> Try man < emacs|less then use the speakup keys to read line by line, or
> word by word if you wish. you can bring up the next page by hitting the
> space bar.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> 
> > Please enlighten me.
> > I never used the Jaws cursor in the new HTML help  format under Windows.
> > Select an item in the tree view, press enter, then press F6 and it will
> > automaticly start reading that help item. It is a simple HTML file there,
> > and it works exactly as simple as Internet Explorer.
> > You don't need the Jaws cursor at all.
> > 
> > You needed the Jaws cursor only for some bad designed help files in the old
> > .hlp format.
> > Now in the new .chm format, you don't have any problems.
> > 
> > But this doesn't matter too much. Please tell me how to navigate the man
> > pages.
> > I type man mv, for example.
> > It starts to print all the help file, but maybe I want to move with a page
> > up then down, etc.
> > 
> > I know this is possible. Thanks.
> > Teddy,
> > orasnita at home.ro
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 8:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: interesting experiment.
> > 
> > 
> > SNIP
> > > > You open a window, and it explains you what you should do there.
> > > > You have to press the space bar to check some checkboxes, to press some
> > > > buttons, etc, and if you don't know something, press shift+f10 (or the
> > right
> > > > mouse button and choose "what's this?" or press F1 to view the help file
> > > > wich is much much more easier to navigate than the man pages under
> > Linux.
> > SNIP
> > 
> > A fake.
> > man pages under GNU/Linux are a lot easier to navigate than windows help
> > pages.
> > you need to route the jaws cursor to the pc and then fart around trying to
> > find what you were looking for.
> > even with the new features in jfw I seriously doubt you could navigate a
> > help file easier than a man page..
> > 
> > 
> > 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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