[vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Sun May 8 13:30:42 PDT 2005


On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 04:18:35PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Sun 08 May 05,  1:07 PM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> said:
> > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:26:04PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > Yeah -- The trouble is I don't know how to get wget to use the proxy
> > 
> > For some reason, Sonic doesn't have the "wget" man page (at least not in
> > my $MANPATH),
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> For this kind of thing, you can use locate, which locates a file on your
> hard drive by name:
> 
>    $ locate wget. | grep man
>    /usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz

Heh, yeah, I'll have to add this craziness to my manpath on my Sonic
account...

  /extra/opt/wget-1.7/man/man1/wget.1


> If you're on a debian system, you can use dpkg to figure out if you have an
> official Debian package of wget installed, which provides the man page.
> 
> If you're still stuck, email me offlist and I'll send you an rpm tutorial
> that I wrote awhile back.

Heh, again, this is on my Sonic account, not on any machine I control. ;^)

But thanks!

-bill!


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