Hello Richard, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 3:03:45 AM, you wrote:
RU> 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. RU> Agreed, but I'm not a newbie and IME, man pages are almost useless RU> for "how do I do x." "how do I do x?" is probably the most common newbie question, yet is the one least likely to get answered by the available tools. RU> apropos doesn't work because the man pages call it y. Yep - another part of the problem. M$ help suffers from the same problem, although their overall integration of help is a step in the right direction. Newbies can describe the question in 'natural language', which is unfortunately not the language used in the OS data base. The first OS that uses a thesaurus well will really be a winner. I'm hoping that will be Mandrake. How can we do that? -- rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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