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6.1.3 HOWTOs and FAQs

    Most of the contents of the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) are available in /usr/doc on your system.  

/usr/doc/HOWTO contains the ASCII versions of all the available HOWTOs at the time we pressed the CD-ROM. They are gzipped, so you have to use gunzip to unzip them or use a command like:

zcat HAM-HOWTO.gz {\verbar} more

The latter will work, but is a bit less flexible than unzipping and then using more. However, unzipping also requires more disk space unless you re-gzip the document when done.  

/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini contains the ASCII versions of all the available mini-HOWTOs. They are not compressed and can be viewed with more or less.   /usr/doc/HTML contains the HTML versions of all the HOWTOs and the _Linux Installation and Getting Started_ guide. To view things here, just use a WWW browser like Red Baron   from Red Hat Software, or Arena  . You would do something like:    

cd /usr/doc/HTML
arena index.html

/usr/doc/FAQ contains ASCII version (and some HTML versions) of some popular FAQs, including the RedHat-FAQ. All of them can be viewed using more or less.



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