The huge amount of information available for Linux make finding the solution to your problem relatively easy. Both the help
information that is already installed on your Linux system & the masses of support to be found on the internet cover almost every
question that you could have. The help files installed on your machine is in the form of man pages (manual pages) & info pages. On the
Suse installation there are also huge html databanks covering almost all aspects of soft & hardware configuration. On the Suse
website there is even more assistance to be found. The man pages are a collection of help files covering every binary (a binary
is an executable file from an installed software package i.e. under windows .exe) that is installed on your system. Access to
the information in the man pages is gained through using key words for what you are looking for, or the name of the binary you want
information over, as simple as typing... man ls, man netstat, man ping, whatever you want. When ever you compile (install) a piece of software
on your machine a man page for that programme will be added to the man page databank. Another good source of information is the binary info.
It is used in the same way as man. To get a shortened form of help you can use the --help argument after the programme name, i.e.
ping --help to find out how ping works & what it's variables / switches / arguments are.
