Oddball said the following on 11/19/2012 08:07 AM:
My problem is often to prevent from being buried under a pile, or truckload of 'manuals', not exactly reflecting what i was looking for....(figuratively spoken 'earthquake', you mentioned earlier..) But, so often seems, the 'manual' of every person, is different.
I think you are so missing the point, not only of what I'm saying, but about much of this thread in general. The documentation is there. Failing to make use of it says a lot about one's attitude and willingness to learn. You don't have to know it all, as might have been the case with DEC.VMS, but you do need to know how to use 'apropos' much as you might google, to 'get a clue', and you should always check the man page for any software you pointed to to find out how to use it. Over and above that, you now have, as many of didn't have when we started this path, the rich examples on the 'Net. As for the 'earthquake' - that wasn't figurative. Go google USENET and you'll find that did happen to one VMS programmer. I have a complete set of USG UNIX SVR4 printed manuals and they are less than a 3 shelf feet. UNIX/LINUX documentation has always been 'light'; even the obsessive documentation-producing machine of IBM couldn't stretch the AIX documentation very far with all its "This page intentionally left blank" inserts. No, failing to RTFM says more about the individual and how serious he is than anything else. And the manuals are, as I say, in these days of the 'Net, just one source you can consult on your own. http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/01/14/howto-record-typescript-your-shell... http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/using_script.htm http://linuxaria.com/pills/registrare-il-terminale-con-script?lang=en http://linuxtarget.com/2012/01/20/recording-terminal-sessions-in-linux-with-... If you haven't you should also try man tty man screen And please, please, please take the time to understand the difference between a hard-wired tty and ptty man pty -- “Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it." – Miles Maguire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org