On Sun August 14 2005 5:47 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Are you defending no attempt to use the man pages or not wanting to ask question about what is not understood?
Man pages have a use, no question. For the different arguements and options for all the commands they do help.
Are you also defining mortal as one who fails to understand *all* the man pages, or one who has not tried.
I think the only person who understands ALL the man pages is the creator of the OS.
I frequently fail to understand some of what I read in the man pages, but also frequently understanding comes with further explanation or trial and error, or questions in the list.
*ALL* documentation could be better, but that does not excuse not trying the documentation first. That *is*, AIUI, the reason for documentation. I wouldn't have known to look for "man apt.conf" in my wildest dreams, man apt sure. even after looking at man apt.conf I failed to see what I needed, BUT I did vi apt.conf, saw a line with an example and added more lines like it. In this case I learned what to look for from the list and did a
yup, I like that last part, questions to the list. trial and error session. Still the man pages were only PART of a solution and the list was also a part. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc