Scripting Question:

[Dawes, Stephen]

Way cool Gene, 

Thanks for the tips, I am going to check them out.

We are all well here, and you won't believe it when I tell you, Jacob is
starting Kindergarten tomorrow.
But that is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 



Steve Dawes
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Gene Collins
> Sent: 2005 August 31 9:44 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Scripting Question: 
> 
> Hi Steve.  If you have the bash-docs package installed, then you can
> type:
> 
> info bash
> 
> It is an extremely well done info page, nicely divided into 
> various sections, including a variables section.  The special 
> $ variables are all covered there.
> 
> It also contains a lot of other stuff you might be interested in. 
> (grin)
> 
> The bash-docs is a debian package.  I don't know how other 
> distros handle the bash documentation.
> 
> Oh, by the way, if you have the groff package installed, you 
> can force the man command to display the manpages in your 
> favorite browser. 
> Simply type:
> 
> man -H bash
> 
> for example.  Looking at a large man page like bash in a 
> browser is much nicer, since you can very easily skip around 
> in the document, and find specific information by using the 
> search capability of your browser.  To make a long story 
> short, it rocks!
> 
> Take care.  Hope Patty and the rest of the family are doing well.
> 
> Gene
> 
> 
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