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Author Re: The art of reading man pages
Alan Connor

2005-01-10, 2:50 am

On 10 Jan 2005 02:22:15 GMT, cga <cga2001@softhome.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 05:49:39 GMT, Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy>
> wrote: [..]
>
>
> Interesting. I once printed what looked like an in-depth
> tutorial of the find command.. maybe 30-40 pages long.. I read
> through the first ten pages or so.. and never had a chance
> to read the rest of it. at one point I threw away a load of
> obsolete docs & howtos and I'm pretty sure that included this
> tutorial.
>
> I vaguely remember that it was well written with lots of
> examples but also that it looked pretty ancient.. probably
> pre-dating linux by a number of years.


No problem. GNU find isn't that different.

>
> As to format, I also remember that the online file was neither
> html or pdf.. possibly TeX dvi stuff.
>
> And unfortunately that's about it :-(
>
> Naturally I've googled for it quite a bit since.. can't find
> it. But then unless I dreamed the whole thing someone else
> should have a copy somewhere.


That would be GREAT.

AC

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