Re: ways to read man pages

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Quoting kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>:

> Hi
>    We all know how important it is to read man pages. I
> would like to collect info on different ways to read the 
> man pages. My
> favorites are as follows
> 
> 1) man pagename
> 2) In konqueror, man:pagename
> 3) In vim, Man pagename
> 
> What about others?

My favorite, especially when it comes to using a program for
the *first* time, is something like:

google apt-ftparchive example configuration

More often than not the first few pages of a google search
will provide you with better documentation than most man
pages. Sadly many man pages lack real world examples that
would help clarify otherwise abstruse or overly abstract
explanations.