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Day Brown wrote:
>
> Well, if manifest.gz, or any of the man/info pages are 
> inconvenient, is there a way to port these *ascii* files 
> to dos, and use familiar dos tools to search, read, edit 
> them? 

Sure.  Just gunzip and copy to a DOS partition.  No problem.

> One of the things that annoys me about Linux is how long 
> it takes to pull up informative text, 

Linux is not the problem.  In Linux it takes me only a couple 
of seconds to pull up informative text.  In fact I find it
easier to get useful information in Linux than in DOS.  

> only slows down the interface 

It sounds like you have overloaded your hardware with 
unnecessary bloat (eye candy?).  I use an old PC and 
it gets info plenty fast (because it runs a lean Linux).

Cheers,
Steven