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Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")



On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 02:24:28PM -0000, Dan Purgert wrote:
> Anyway, isn't this where the differences between say "man something" and
> "man 5 something" come into play?  Or rather, the implication that
> section 1 (or whatever) may only hold a basic overview, and then section
> 5 (or whatever) will hold the full documentation.

Section 1: user commands.
Section 5: file formats.

man 1 intro
man 5 intro

What you want is actually section 7: overviews, conventions, protocols,
etc.  That's where tutorials should go.

man 7 intro


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