Date: 30 Jun 99 07:53:27 PDT From: Jesus Monroy <jesus.monroy@usa.net> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: [FreeBSD Man Pages]]] Message-ID: <19990630145327.15958.qmail@nw171.netaddress.usa.net>
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John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> wrote:
> =
> On 30-Jun-99 Jesus Monroy wrote:
> > Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 02:28:16AM -0700, Jesus Monroy wrote:
> >> > Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> wrote:
> >> > > =
> >> > > To my mind *one* of the points where FreeBSD is really good are
> >> > > the man
> >> > > pages. I don't have a proposal how to use this fact for promotin=
g =
> >> > > FreeBSD,
> >> > > but my intention is to mention that strength of FreeBSD here.
> >> > > =
> >> > Very incorrect. Just a few days ago I show that 15%
> >> > of the online whatis(1) and man(1) records where
> >> > incorrect.
> >> =
> >> For one definition of "incorrect". What you showed does not detract
> >> from the point that Konrad is making.
> >> =
> >> =
> > Wait a minute. Where is this arrogant attitude coming from!
> > The results plainly should wrong pages index, bad references
> > and missing descriptions.
> > =
> > Please explain your idea (or definition of "correct").
> > (Please note I know where all the IEEE papers are on
> > correct. So think this through before you popoff.)
> =
> Relatively speaking they are a heck of a lot better than manpagse for
> some
> commercial Unices. They may not be perfect, but they're a heck of a lo=
t
> closer.. and that was the original poster's point, which your survey ha=
s
> nothing to do with.
> =
Well, as long as we are going to insert the foot, let's do
it right. Thank you for following along folks in the game
of "who's foot will be inserted first?"
Let's start by quote the original contestant:
"To my mind *one* of the points where FreeBSD is really good are
the man pages. "
The implicatation is that there are many good things about
FreeBSD. (hmm. good so far). Second implication, so maybe
we'll strech this a bit and say "of the 100 great things
about FreeBSD, the man pages is one". (hmm, still sounds
good.)
Now from my end, 15% of the pages have been show to be incorrect.
(hmm...) let us say error decrement between here and the top.
Let's say this is at the bottom of the list, thereby
making it the least correct. (hmm...)
Conclusion: The weather man is better at predicting the
the weather on 24 hour basis than the man pages are.
Wow that sounds great now... doesn't it!
Someone had me my umbrella, weatherman predicts brown rain
in large clumpy balls. :^> (hammer away peabrain)
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pop-up-happy dungeon like NT."
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