What to do when not understanding man pages?
I'm having problems with two specific man pages at the moment -
gunzip and dpkg-scanpackages.
When using gunzip I got an unexpected result. The result of
"gunzip myfile.gz" was a single file named "myfile". What I
expected/desired was to have two files on the disk - "myfile.gz"
and "myfile". There was only one - "myfile". Reading the man page
seemed to indicate that was the _only_ possible result? Is there
no option for my desired result? [Of course a copy of original
file could be made before unzipping it, but that seems a KLUDGE.]
My problem with the dpkg-scanpackages man pages is that I don't
seem to be able to apply it correctly to my situation. I need
some more detail examples and that is NOT the function of man pages.
I wish to have a local repository whose structure mimics the
distribution DVDs.
For my system running Squeeze I in fact copied the dists and pool
directories (their sub-directories and files) to that partition
which was mounted as /media/repo6.
I've read several web pages on "local repositories" &/or "using
dpkg-scanpackages".
Result - totally confused ;/
Is there an authoritative page of examples?
Underlying question:
What to do when man &/or info do not satisfy?
Google can only help sometimes - it value depends strongly on
guessing appropriate set of keywords.
TIA
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