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 ARCHIVES.gz to /usr/share/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 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



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  MERCHANTABILITY  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

Man(1) output converted with man2html