PIN(1)							      General Commands Manual							    PIN(1)

NAME

       pin - Package InformatioN

SYNOPSIS

       pin [OPTION] [PACKAGENAME/FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       Pin  searches  the  installed  packages	(rpm  -qi,  -ql)  and/or  the ARCHIVES.gz file for the desired information.  It shows also README,
       README.SuSE, FAQ, when available.

       It is also possible to search through different version with the -v option, if you have the ARCHIVES.gz from it.   You  have  to  copy  AR-
       CHIVES.gz to /var/lib/pin/ for this option, don`t forget to name it, e.g. 7.1-ppc, 7.2-i386.

       pin    open a dialog box and wait for searchstring

       pin <name>
	      searches for a package <name>

       pin -f <name>
	      greping also if package was found

       pin -v <version> <name>
	      searches through another version, not the default

AUTHOR

       Written by Martin Lasarsch

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <mlasars@suse.de>

CREDITS

       thanks to henne <scripts@hennevogel.de> for hosting & advertising and Stefan Schmidt for better sorting. Christian Boltz for testing, fixes
       and recommendations.

COPYRIGHT

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as  published	by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This  program  is  distributed  in  the	hope  that  it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free  Software  Foundation,
       Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

pin								  September 2001							    PIN(1)