Re: ways to read man pages
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:01:18PM -0500, Ephemeral root wrote:
> More often than not the first few pages of a google search
> will provide you with better documentation than most man
> pages. Sadly many man pages lack real world examples that
> would help clarify otherwise abstruse or overly abstract
> explanations.
"a man page is a reference, not a tutorial"[1]. The docs in
/usr/share/doc *should* be sufficient, for any given package. If they
aren't, I'd suggest filing a low priority bug to this effect.
[1] http://people.debian.org/~branden/talks/wtfm/
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Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/
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