discuss: man pages
Subject:
Re: man pages
From:
"Guru -" ####@####.####
Date:
16 May 2003 03:32:13 -0000
Message-Id: <Sea2-F46IIZS2TRqf6900003527@hotmail.com>
Sure, rewriting all documentation seems like a good idea, lol, I don't think
so, there's no way the LDP has time to create a simplified manual page for
every existant tool.
Sure, I think the idea is great but its not practical, I mean you could
rewrite pages for the core utilities.
My HOWTO does this (to a point, its not designed to be a man page rewrite of
every existant tool).
The GNU/Linux Tools Summary HOWTO is hosted here:
www.karakas-online.de/LinuxCommands/t1.html
So if you did want to go ahead with the idea feel free to reference material
from there.
The idea is good but I don't think its very practical to carry out........
Also we don't need to get rid of man pages (as previously stated by someone
else) they are important for power-users and administrators, we simply need
a simplified version of man pages for new users.....
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