
                           Welcome to Debian!
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Welcome to the exciting world of Debian.  If you are new to Debian or Unix,
then you will most likely start to look for further information sooner or
later.  Here are some hints where to get it:

1. The Unix manual pages:

   The original Unix online manual may be accessed through the 'man' command.
   References to the 'man' database are often written as man(1), meaning
   the topic 'man' in section '1' of the manual.  To access the specific
   sections of the man database just type the following sequence:

     man SECTION TOPIC

   where 'SECTION' and 'TOPIC' are to be replaced by the section and topic
   you want to know about. If you have the X11 window system installed, then
   you can access the man database through X11 clients like 'xman' or 'tkman'.

2. The GNU info system:

   The lack of cross-references and other short-comings of the traditional
   man pages prompted the FSF to invent a new online-manual system for their
   GNU project, called GNU info.  Traditionally the GNU info system is
   accessed through GNU emacs, but there is also standalone command called
   'info' with the same functionality and interface.  Additionally there are
   X11 clients like 'xinfo' or 'tkinfo' available.

3. The /usr/share/doc hierarchy:

   Additional information like copyrights, examples and documents not
   fitting the categories above are stored in the directory hierarchy
   /usr/share/doc/.

4. Ask for help:

   If you still need assistance, ask your system administrator or contact
   the Debian mailing lists (look at /usr/share/doc/debian/mailing-lists.txt)

Your Debian development team.
