Re: Just my opinion
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote:
> > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong,
>
> You have a bit of a point there. Some of the HOWTOs are rather old and
> inaccurate, mostly because they were written a few years ago and there've
> been many advances since then. Most of the manpages on the other hand are
> relatively up-to-date, and many of the more complicated packages even come
> with examples (look in /usr/doc/[packagename]).
The GNU manpages are really bad. Most just tell you that you shouldn't use
them - use info instead. Yuck!
Look at FreeBSD if you want to see decent manpages. Or any of the
commercial unices.
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