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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)

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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)
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