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Re: Documentation and Usability



On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:37:27PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote:
> 
> The obvious solution to this quandry, would be to put the URL in the man 
> page if the page applied to that implementation.  Shouldn't that be easy 
> to do?  (but it does leave out those poor unfortunates that do not have 
> internet access for whatever reason, say power loss, stupid security 
> features, too broke, etc.  I love the Road Runner help desk when I can't 
> connect, they tell me to access the web site if I need help!)
> 
> 
> 
>

I don't doubt that Debian is used where there is -no- Internet access or
where Internet access is prohibited. Besides this, websites move, URLs
change and documentation doesn't.

Could you imagine a man page pointing you to a file on a gopher server?

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