[CLUE-Tech] Re:"getting insanely frustrated"

[Jed S. Baer]

On Fri, 24 May 2002 14:14:57 -0600
David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:

> Mike Staver wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, I would read a man page... but for what?  I tried apm, and that
> > didn't help, so I'm at a loss.
> 
> The man page would be for modules.conf, since the apm we're talking
> about is a kernel module.  There are also module docs in
> linux/Documentation in the kernel source tree (which may be somewhere on
> your system even if you don't have the source).  You could also look at
> apmd, but that seems not to be the problem.

At least with RedHat, you do indeed get /usr/src/linux/Documentation. Some
good reading in there too. In fact, you do get the kernel source.

> You can use man -k apm to get a list of man pages that have apm in their
> descriptions.  And of course there is always "man man". :-)

And let's not forget "info info" <G>.

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