Honestly, I feel like an 8 year old with a BASIC compiler could write a better documentation system, but would the masses switch to it?
It would be a lot of work; so probably not. Sometimes things stick around for the wrong reasons..... On Feb 20, 1:00 pm, Scott Vargovich <[email protected]> wrote: > It took a long time of playing with man pages before I got used to the way > they were written. I'm able to use them now and get the info from them I'm > looking for, but it took a lot of hours of banging my coconut against the > wall and hearing the hollow sound. I guess what I'm saying is I agree with > you - and it's a pet-peeve of mine as well. Until somebody comes up with a > better solution, it's something we're going to have to deal with. > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Feb 20, 12:23 pm, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It's like what the man pages should have been: organized by context > > > and with meaningful examples. > > > > Regards, > > > - Robert > > > Man pages are one of my pet peeves with linux. A horrid documentation > > system. They're just glorified text files! A lot of programmers > > don't seem to do a good job of documenting their programs, or perhaps > > they are just lazy? Pairing them up with man pages is just a disaster. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit our group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- > <>< Scott Vargovich <>< > ------------------------------------------ > OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E > ------------------------------------------- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
