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Re: Newbie questions



On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:43:24PM +0100, Inge Thorin Eidsaether wrote:
> 1 - I keep getting console messages about 
>     'eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full duplex, lpa 0x41E1' and 
>     'eth0: link down'. These two messages alternate regularly. 
>     When the link is down, of course I cannot connect to anything. 
>     Also, how do I avoid getting these annoying messages? 

Keep your network cord plugged in?

> 2 - Doing a 'man-k <some_command>' (or man -f <some_command>) does not work.
>     Is there a misconfiguration somewhere? 

man -k <keyword> is what you're looking for...

> 3 - How do I go backwards in a man page reading? Looks like 'more' is used to 
>     page the ouput to screen, but 'b' or ^B does not work here. 
>     Silly question, maybe...

Use some other pager (heck, when you're using more, *any* other pager)
instead.  You'll be able to scroll up then.

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