discuss: man pages
Subject:
Re: man pages
From:
Rahul ####@####.####
Date:
16 May 2003 09:02:15 -0000
Message-Id: <20030516090147.13875.qmail@web8004.mail.in.yahoo.com>
hi
just bcoz u like scrolling up with those keys dont
assume everyone will do so. the power of linux
shouldnt scare people of. ls can have umpteen
options.i am not against that but i want the relevant
ones first in a help page.is that bad?
regards
rahul
--- David Lawyer ####@####.#### wrote: > On Thu, May
15, 2003 at 03:58:02PM +0100, Rahul
> Sundaram wrote:
> > Here I am presenting my opinion on man pages and
> making a few
> > suggestions on how LDP can deal with this.
>
> This is part of the overall problem of integrating
> Linux documentation.
> It's a big project that needs at lot of volunteer
> effort which the LDP
> hasn't available at present.
>
> > The GNU has been calling man pages outdated stuff
> and
> > replaced them with info pages.
> But I think they are still more widely used that
> info pages.
> > Man pages cater to the expert who already knows
> what he deals.
> Not always. Some are tutorial with examples, etc.
>
> > If I am a new user trying to learn say what ls
> does from the command
> > line, the almost infinite number of options would
> scare me off Linux
> > for the rest of my life.
>
> If you type ls --help it shows all the options and
> then by using
> <shift><PageUp> you can go scroll back to the first
> screenfull of them.
> The large number of options also illustrates the
> power of Linux.
>
> [snip]
> > /Cat myfile.txt/ - would display a text file on
> screen but you can
> > only see the last part if the file contains more
> information than what
> > would typically fit in a single screen(24 lines).
>
> Use <shift><PageUp> to read what scrolled by too
> fast.
> <shift><PageDown> scrolls back down.
>
> David Lawyer
>
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