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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 18 Dec 1995 00:26:27 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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js@ibbs.av.org (Jeff Stillinger) wrote:
]
] Ahhh, Michael you seem to have hit the nail on the head. This
] is the biggest and most costly error that FreeBSD has. In most
] cases the man pages are written very poorly. The only thing
] that resembles a book is the FAQ. It can be a waste of time
] when the FAQ tells you a lot of nothing. Compiling a kernel
] can be a adventure to say the least.
There is a new user manual in PS format that is (supposedly)
going to a publisher. It has been posted about several times.
On man pages: What is a well written man page? On that makes
you _want_ to type the command?
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.