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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