[texhax] insufficient documentation

William F Hammond hmwlfsr at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 22 17:12:58 CET 2014


Schneider <schneidt at mail.nih.gov> writes:

> I accidentally typed 'ebb' on the command line and got a
> response.  It turned out to be a tex program:
>
> 1% which ebb
> /usr/texbin/ebb
> ...

If you have 'which', you likely have 'man' for consulting
system manual pages.  Thus,

   man ebb

whereupon one finds "extract bounding box information from graphics
files".

TexLive provides manual pages for the programs it distributes.
I do not know about other TeX distributions.

                              -- Bill

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