%entities; ]> Debian User Reference Manual (Obsolete Documentation) Ardo van Rangelrooij ardo@debian.org Jason D. Waterman jwaterma@bbn.com Thalia L. Hooker th@visi.com Havoc Pennington rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu Oliver Elphick - Maintainer Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk Bruce Evry bruce@fantek.org Karl-Heinz Zimmer khz@snafu.de Andreas Franzen anfra@debian.org version 0.1, The Debian User Reference Manual covers everything a user should know about a Debian GNU/Linux system from a user's view point. It fills the gap between the Debian Tutorial and the manual and info pages of individual packages. Copyright © 1997 Ardo van Rangelrooij, 1998 Oliver Elphick

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with your Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/doc/copyright/GPL, or with the debiandoc-sgml source package as the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Introduction

author = Ardo van Rangelrooij ardo@debian.org

"about this manual"

"where to find newer versions"

"how this manual came about"

Please send all comments, critics, suggestions, bugs, etc. to the Documentation Coordinator, olly@lfix.co.uk.

Overview of a Debian GNU/Linux System

author = Ardo van Rangelrooij ardo@debian.org

topics = booting (?), first login session, shutting down, etc.; concepts of users, shells, processes, etc.

Documentation

author = Karl-Heinz Zimmer x_zimmer@online.de

topics = how to read man pages, "apropos", using info and dwww, etc.

Files and File Systems

author = Havoc Pennington rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu

topics = file handling commands, directory handling commands, directory structure, file systems, etc.

&Files Shells

author = Jason D. Waterman jwaterma@bbn.com

topics = bash basics, tcsh, etc.

Basic Commands and Tools

author = Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk

topics = head, tail, grep, etc.

&Basics Advanced Commands and Tools

author = ?

topics = awk, sed, etc.

Text Editing

author = Jason D. Waterman jwaterma@bbn.com

topics = handling vi (how to exit ;-), emacs, etc.

Text Processing

author = Andreas Franzen anfra@debian.org

topics = tex, latex, sgml, troff, lyx, etc.

&TextProcessing Programming

author = Andreas Franzen anfra@debian.org

topics = gcc, javac, gdb, ddd, xxgdb, etc.

&Programming Science

author = Andreas Franzen anfra@debian.org

topics = everything in section math

&Science Games

author = Jason D. Waterman jwaterma@bbn.com

topics = ?

Sound

author = ?

topics = ?

Image Manipulation

author = ?

topics = gimp, xv, xfig, etc.

Networking

author = ?

topics = mail, news, ftp, etc.

Databases

author = Andreas Franzen anfra@debian.org

topics = organizing data

&Databases X Windows

author = Jason D. Waterman jwaterma@bbn.com

topics = ?

X Windows Managers

author = ?

topics = ?

X Windows Applications

author = ?

topics = ?

Index