Any reference on /etc/network/*

[Derek Broughton]

Pastor JW wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 August 2008 04:00:52 pm Brian McKee wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Odd -  typing 'man:interfaces' into the 'Run' box gives me this:
>> > The requested URI "man:///interfaces" is invalid
>>
>> Well I'll be durned.
>>
>> You know, I do test these things.  And I did this time too.  And it
>> works exactly the way I described, using Debian testing.... :-(
>>
>> But I swear I've done that in Ubuntu before too!  Does anybody have a
>> gutsy box handy to try it on?  Maybe behaviour changed?
> 
> Well in Hardy it doesn't work, but if you take the colon out it works as
> expected.  What does the colon signify in 'man:interfaces' ?

The colon says it's a protocol, and needs a protocol handler - which in this
case should, I guess, be yelp.  Just putting "man interfaces" in there,
says the program is "man" and it takes the argument "interfaces" - and when
I run that from F2 it's (probably) successful, but the window closes as
soon as it's finished, so I see nothing.
-- 
derek