Hello Anne,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 2:43:16 PM, you wrote:
>> It may be in the docs, but not in a form that is readily accessible
>> by a simple search.
AW> It's an interesting proposition, but not an overnight job, I think
True. How does one get a group together to develop it?
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Hello Anne,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 2:41:02 PM, you wrote:
>> How about a help-system list, maybe?
AW> Hi, Rikona. Thanks for the offer. It's better not to split into
AW> too many resources, so why not check out the TWiki for newbie
AW> stuff, then decide where it would fit best.
What
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 13:49, rikona wrote:
> Hello Aron,
>
> Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 3:25:39 AM, you wrote:
>
> AS> RTFM OK but the real newbie is having trouble finding TFM
>
> Gee - I thought I was the only one with that problem. :-)
Took me six months to figure out that when a browser o
Hello Aron,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 3:25:39 AM, you wrote:
AS> RTFM OK but the real newbie is having trouble finding TFM
Gee - I thought I was the only one with that problem. :-)
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Hello Anne,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 1:24:19 AM, you wrote:
AW> Any offers?
How about a good 'help system'? I'd be willing to contribute.
AW> It's a challenge, really
Yes, it will certainly be a challenge. :-)
How about a help-system list, maybe?
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rikona
Hello John,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 11:43:33 PM, you wrote:
JW> In the early NIX world where the folks hacking away on the system
JW> were C programmers talking to C programmers
It is more like: Cpgmrs tlk w cp & hkg awy @ t sym. I remember a
magazine that used to publish a puzzle each mont
Hello yankl,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 7:40:28 PM, you wrote:
y> The *NIX OS is designed for responsible people, are we agree on
y> this?
One can be VERY responsible and know nothing about the jargon. Many
want it as TOOL, not as a hobby/living/etc. The best tools work well,
and are very easy
Hello yankl,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 5:51:31 PM, you wrote:
y> I think my point was not taken properly. I am sorry it probably my
y> English (it not even my second language more like fourth).
You are doing very well, then.
y> My point was that people should make a research first and then t
Hello Anne,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:31:31 AM, you wrote:
AAW> Don't want to rain on your parade, rikona, but 'natural language'
AW> searches never seemed to give me answers either.
It is VERY likely that your "natural language" search was nothing at
all like what I am proposing. Just beca
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:47, Aron Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:57, rikona wrote:
> > Hello yankl,
> >
> > Sunday, September 21, 2003, 5:36:27 PM, you wrote:
> >
> > y> hence the end of my e-mail "man -k". Have any one done their home
> > y> work?
> >
> > Yes, but it was not very helpf
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:57, rikona wrote:
> Hello yankl,
>
> Sunday, September 21, 2003, 5:36:27 PM, you wrote:
>
> y> hence the end of my e-mail "man -k". Have any one done their home
> y> work?
>
> Yes, but it was not very helpful, as I mentioned.
>
> y> By typing "#man -k lilo" one can see
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:03 pm, rikona wrote:
> Hello Richard,
>
> Sunday, September 21, 2003, 3:03:45 AM, you wrote:
> 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 hel
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, ma
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