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From: coe@io.UUCP (Chet Edelman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Online Guru ..
Message-ID: <529@io.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 20:56:20 GMT
References: <2665@shamash>
Reply-To: coe@hineni.UUCP (Chet Edelman)
Organization: Interleaf, Cambridge, MA
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In article <2665@shamash> jwabik@shamash writes:
>				    ... a sort_of, "Online Guru"..
>Software that you could literally ask, "How to I do disk backups", to
>which the response would be, "Dump is the UNIX utility that [...].
>Please see the manual page for dump(8) for further [...]."

I use ``man -k'' (k for keywords, the name and one-line decription on a
manual page) to find out about programs that I think ought to be
there.  Of course, one has to develop a sense of significant keywords.
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