Re: tech proposal to make manoj somewhat happy.
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 01:59:55PM -0500, Petra, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> I dissagree with you completly, a complete newbie given a clean install
> with good docs, will learn to do things the right way instead of how
> someone else showed them.
Well, I'm waiting eagerly for your contribution to the Debian Documentation
Project. debian-doc is the correct list for this, and you'll find enough to
get started on the mailing list archive.
To put it straight: Put your foot where your mouth is. A proposal is only
needed when a major design issue has to be resolved. In this case, I think
it is sufficient to submit results.
> w96 is a 2 color 640x480 windowing system,
> that is small, and quick.
Why should we use a 2 color low resolution graphical system (which will cost
more space on the already too big base system), when we already have a
functional and compatible multi-colored window system, for text mode?
> w96 can be found by a simple search on the linux
> applications web page, (sounds like someone didn't do there homework). and
> as to your last question. 1: why not. 2: it's time for a change.
I laugh at you. This 1:, 2: "reasoning" has no technical substantiation and
disqualifies you from this discussion.
> I'm sujesting we look into other archive formats to see if a speed improvment
> is to be had. ie: a gz of a cpio archive... or whatever.
The possible gain would be minimal, too minimal to warrant even the
consideration to move away from the already working solution.
[snipped unmotivated logo discussion]
> Not everyone uses less, or likes less. yes man itself is great for quick
> looks, however for the beginning person, man is confusing, and rather hard
> to use, however lynx is easy to use, and well documented.
I've never found "man" confusing. What is confusing with "man <command>"? Is
there an easier solution? WTF are you talking here? Are you trolling or
what? Do you know that you need a webbrowser, a webserver and cgi scripts
and the man2html tool and many more keystrokes to access man pages via lynx?
Why am I pointing out the obvious? You must be trolling.
> > For longer tutorials, the HTML format is not as good as the
> > info format; I can do greps across multiple info pages, which is hard
> > to do with HTML without investing time and effort in external
> > indexing programs.
>
> lynx allows you to do a text search useing /
But not *across* multiple documents.
Can we stop this, please?
Marcus
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