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mats
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Posted: Feb. 24 2005,23:38

thanks for the tip
thiis is like a code for a Super Mario hidden world or something

not working, but,

bur got me thinking of the Nes

JohnS

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Posted: Feb. 25 2005,04:25

My biggest issue with DSL is lack of man pages. I've been using unix systems for over 20 years and have gotten into the habit of typing man xxx whenever I run across a commond or file I don't completely understand. In DSL this gets you a browser to a URL that doesn't exist, not terribly helpful.

I know there is not enough room for a complete man page suite on the CD, but it would be nice to have it available as a .dsl for HD installs, or even the online approach would work most of the time if it actually pointed at some place that had man pages.

Of course when I was first working with DSL I was trying to get wifi to work, online man pages wouldn't have helped much with that!

John S.

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Posted: Feb. 25 2005,04:42

The net man utility works fine in 0.9.3
DSL cannot help if the manpage site goes down,
I think they told us in the change log that they had to change sites.
Anyways it working fine for me.

tronik

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Posted: Feb. 25 2005,06:24

You can definitely install manpages. Busybox uses a web based lookup. Anyway, you can install manpages yourself. If you're using DamnSmall you're also using Debian. Look into it. =)

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Posted: Feb. 25 2005,13:13

google > man

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