14 Aug
2005
14 Aug
'05
21:35
On Sunday 14 Aug 2005 22:14, Patrick Shanahan wrote: <SNIP>
I always suspected there was a *real* reason for all those "man" pages. Imagine the knowledge which might be gained if the man pages were consulted prior to posing questions in the lists.....
The simple fact is that many man pages are cryptic if not downright indecipherable, especially to users who are unused to unix-style technical docs. You might understand every word of every one you ever need to read, and be able to identify the exact one you need spontaneously every time, but that simply isn't true of us mere mortals. <SNIP> -- "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." (Chinese Proverb)