*** On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 at 4:08pm Mansur, Warren shared this with the class::
> One advantage of man pages is being able to pipe them into other > commands such as grep, whereas interactive help doesn't allow for pipes. Don't forget the audience. would a newbie need to look at the man pages for grep? ;) I think that is where a lot of advanced users go astray. I remember when I first started...No one would give me a striaght answer. All I would get is "man tar" for an answer. Call me stupid but I have walked at least 6 of my friends through Linux installs, Bind/Apache/Sendmail/MySQL and other installs and never once did I say RTFM. It's all about being personal and helping one person at a time. Eventually they will help someone and the virus you created will spread. That's been my experience and I know that one of my friends help someone in Florida when just a year ago he didn't even know what Linux was. Ray ------------------------------ Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
