Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 10:35:52AM -0400,
Kristopher Johnson <nosleep@atl.mediaone.net> wrote:
> I'm the guy that asked which package had the HOWTOs. I know it seemed like
> a dumb question, but I did try searching on "HOWTO" in both dselect and on
> the Debian web site, and came up with nothing. And I started paging through
> the 2700+ packages shown in dselect, but gave up after an hour or so of
> that. Maybe it would help if the package was named "doc-howto" or something
> useful like that, or if it was installed as part of the "Complete Developer
> Workstation" profile I selected when installing Debian.
>
I hope you didn't take my message to be insulting to you, because I didn't
intend it that way. There's nothing wrong with asking questions, I do it all
the time. I was just saying that the person answering your question should
have told you how to search the Contents file (dists/slink/Contents-i386.gz).
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