Re: Debian Help Facility
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Lyno Sullivan wrote:
> I am a GNU/Linux newbie and have been having trouble finding answers to
> simple questions. For example, I wanted to figure out how to view html
> pages. I looked in /usr/doc/HTML. I tried "man html" and "help html". I
> want to figure out how to answer my own questions but I keep wandering
> around and, undoubtedly, missing the obvious..
>
Use Netscape or Lynx.
> What would be my process for contacting the right person so that I can
> contribute some newbie documents on general topics? Is there a Debian
> Documentation Development team that I can join? Is there a Debian
> Documentation Quality Assurance team that reviews these documents prior to
> being officially published?
>
You're on the list, I think that means you've joined. :-)
> Is there some documentation Search Engine that I have overlooked?
>
> And, the most basic question of all, where do I find the document that
> describes all the different documentation facilities and development
> infrastructure that exists? Is there some one Documentation README.1st
> that I have simply missed?
>
There is a section of the tutorial that describes some of these things;
http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html
Havoc
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