I'm afraid that software these days makes me wish it had Unix man pages. I will give Apple props that the terminal shell is still there man pages and all.
When I got my first iMac I found the missing manual book to be indispensable. I don't know what I'd do these days if I had a problem and my network connection was down. On June 10, 2019 4:23:14 PM PDT, "P. J. Alling" <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: >Sadly the level of documentation for just about everything has reached >the level of UNIX' original Man pages, which ran the gamut from obscure > >to impenetrable. Useful perhaps if you already knew what you were >doing, but needed a hint for an operation not normally used, but not >much else. > >On 6/10/2019 4:40 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: >> As an aside, my Final Cut Studio software that I bought brand new >around 2006 was supplied with a full set of paper manuals (all 5 >books!) and I find them easy to read, very clear in instruction, and >easy to search in. I have never bothered with the software manuals as I >enjoy picking them up and reading them when I have a problem, which is >rare. >> >> I think the society we live in today takes a lot of things for >granted. My wife is a prime example. She's taken over doing the annual >accounts for her branch of the Green Party, and uses an Excel template. >When something goes wrong or she wants to do something she doesn't now >how to, she immediately asks me 'how do I do this?' somehow expecting >me to know the answer. I use a lot of computer software, primarily >things like Final Cut and Photoshop, and occasionally MS Office. >> >> Recently she asked about an Excel issue which I didn't know the >answer to, so she asked me how we could go about finding out! I said, >well, it looks like I'm going to have to stop whatever it is I'm doing, >find the relevant help section, read it, figure out your issue and >rectify it. Oh good, she said, I'll go and pit the kettle on..... >> >> *sigh* >> >-- >America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. >America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. > - P.J. O'Rourke > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
