On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:36:27 -0400
yankl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sunday 21 September 2003 06:03 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under
> > > the belt.  For a true newbie, many ar totally inpenetrable.
> >
> > Agreed, but I'm not a newbie and IME, man pages are almost useless
> > for"how do I do x." apropos doesn't work because the man pages call
> > it y. If someone tells me "use the abc command" then I can use man
> > to find out how it works.
> 
> hence the end of my e-mail "man -k". Have any one done their home
> work? What got me going is some one asking how to uninstall lilo. This
> is a case where you should go to lilo man page and see how it is done.
> By typing "#man -k lilo" one can see what command it relates too.
> Unless we like to have  m$users we need to start using all tools
> provided by OS. 
>snip yaddayyahda blahb blah<

Problem:  We do want M$users.  You want them to jump right in. Not gonna
happen.

End of story.

Femme

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