On Monday 17 February 2003 17:20, Jason R. Mastaler wrote: > Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm with Jesse Guardiani on this one. :-) > > I don't remember him answering the question of whether they provided > any additional value beyond the --help output.
OK. I'll try to be more clear: Yes, they do. > > > So, are you interested in a man page contribution? > > My worry is that they will be redundant in the face of the --help > output, and thus I'll need to make updates in two places from then on. Redundant? Probably. Man pages make it easy to find information about a program without knowing exactly where the program lives on your system. And it's quicker than changing to the TMDA directory and typing ./whatever --help The formating adds readability too. The whole page comes up in a pager, rather than having to ./whatever --help | less or similar. And, as I noted before, it's tradition. First timers are probably going to automatically type 'man tmda-pending' rather than 'tmda- pending --help'. In that respect it's more intuitive. Of coarse, I say all of this without wanting to be the person who maintains them. But I do think that if someone has the time to maintain them, they'll add value to the project. > _________________________________________________ > tmda-workers mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net We are actively looking for companies that do a lot of long distance faxing and want to cut their long distance bill by up to 50%. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. _________________________________________________ tmda-workers mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
