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Re: nebie questions
Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> Ben Nes Michael <miki@canaan.co.il> wrote:
>
> > man pages r horrible, hard to understand and arranged very stupidly
>
> "Hard to understand" and "arranged very stupidly" (assuming for a moment you're
> right) is NOT a property of specific documentation format. It depends on the
> human that wrote the docs. You can easily find a nice-looking hyper-text manual
> with a lot of clickable cross-references and pictures which is difficult to
> understand because it's badly (in the sense of cognition) designed.
>
> > Who can understand how to use tar from man page ? i didn't
>
> Well, I did. So what?
The system of man pages is understandable for me now (at last) !!! and for you too
(if im guessing right from your Email address)
But for the poor newbie that just got his first Linux, He dont understand nothing
becouse its look like chainnese and the way back to his win95 is really short from
this point.
>
>
> > man pages r good only to refresh what u already know
>
> I'd put it other way around: man pages are good when you *know* enough to be in
> a need of *refreshing* :). And that's what good books are for.
>
> I don't say man pages is the best. But they're quite good for what they're
> intended to be: a MANUAL pages. Not TEXT books.
I think you need to add the words for the average user to the line above (a MANUAL
pages for the average user at least !)
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