Re: Creating a task launcher.....
* David E. Fox <dfox@m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com> [2005-07-09 22:15]:
> But what if you don't know the binary?
man -k keyword (e.g. man -k browser)
> For instance, how does a newbie come
> to the conclusion that "kopete" is (one choice for) an instant
> messaging client?
man -k instant
> To put this in perspective, I was a new user of a Mac OSX system a few
> weeks ago. Took me sometime to figure out that "Safari" was their web
> browser. The fact that I could open a terminal and have a reasonably
> similar (i.e., Unix environment) is certainly useful, but it didn't
> provide any additional help; if I could have done "safari &" I would
> have done so, but that's beside the point, as I still had to discover
> the association that "safari" is "web browser".
I would think that "man" would be installed with OSX?
I truly believe that man should be one of the first
programs a new user should get familiar with.
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