using rutebook

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Mon Aug 18 11:45:22 UTC 2008


James Takac wrote:
> Hi Karl
>
> On Monday 18 August 2008 12:31:44 Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> andy baxter wrote:
>>     
>>> Bill Taylor wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I know I'm not very smart but I opened synaptic, searched and found
>>>> rutebook and installed it.  So. where did it go?  The documentation said
>>>> that it was a pdf file, I can print that, as well as html but I can't
>>>> find it.
>>>>         
>>> A general way of finding out what files have been installed by a given
>>> package is:
>>>
>>> dpkg -L packagename
>>>       
>>     I am using rutebook and like what I see. But it seems the people who
>> can't find rutebook can't read either! It is just amazing how many
>> people do not know that documentation often goes to /usr/share/doc/ and
>> that was where I found it but no pdf file was there. But there is a
>> /html and I am using this to view the book on Firefox.
>>
>>     If you can't find or use rutebook your not READY to use rutebook. Go
>> back to Windows but it has even worse documentation so you better stay
>> here.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>     
> in my directory there's also a gz file that if I click it opens a pdf it would 
> seem
>
> James
>
>   
    Ahh, I never un-gzipped the file. Maybe a pdf would be better. I 
will see, but actually the web version has you clicking all over the 
book at the beginning. I think that is a learning experience too.

Karl


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