X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=dss.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=ff4274b26b3560f404aaaf73591deb6efa998c61;hp=8dd3846bb3cd8aa5c4264b84c2ef6756fed2f991;hb=fd4b3f4de0f4ea6065b3dadcf86e6bd878a06a95;hpb=8400c35d9158b420d99f20c54353bbf0b4a62b8b diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 8dd3846..ff4274b 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ some directory that is included in your PATH, e.g. to $HOME/bin or to Note that you'll likely need a recent version of ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gengetopt/ (gnu gengetopt) to compile dss. +Optionally, type + + make man + +to create the man page of dss. This invokes help2man so make sure +that help2man is installed on your system. Note that the man page is +just the nroff variant of the output of "dss --detailed-help". + dss is known to compile on Linux, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD. However, it is run-tested only on Linux. @@ -43,7 +51,7 @@ Then execute the commands In order to print the list of all snapshots created so far, use - dss --list + dss --ls Yes, it's really that easy. Of course, dss supports many more features and config options such as taking snapshots from remote