-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2012-11-19 11:26, JtWdyP wrote:
I note that some of the other posters seem to think you are not actually reading the {expletive deleted} manuals. But what I think I'm seeing is somebody having a hard time understanding the {many expletives deleted} manuals.
No expletive. It means "Fabulous" ;-)
I know that I almost always have a hard time understanding what they mean myself. I mean I can usually use them to remind me of something I used to know. But if they wanted me to actually learn something new from them, they would do better to include many more actual usage examples, instead of just describing the usage in such highly technical terms that it often merely confuse me.
Yes, man pages are guides for some one that already knows how to use the program in question. Most of them, anyway, with notable exceptions like procmail(ex). Howtos are much better.
If I'm right all I can say is keep plugging, eventually you'll at least learn some of it. But they are right too. The "man pages" and "info documents" are usually your best source of information on a command. Unfortunately they seem to be written like college text books, with the expectation that the student will be guided by some professor or some such thing.
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