From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 00:57:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA14874 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 00:57:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-1.mail.demon.net (relay-1.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.140]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA14864 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 00:57:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-1.mail.demon.net id ab05448; 8 Jul 96 8:57 +0100 Received: from longacre.demon.co.uk ([158.152.156.24]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa05243; 7 Jul 96 18:16 +0100 From: Michael Searle Message-ID: To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports suggestion References: <199607070624.XAA01726@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 14:16:25 BST X-Mailer: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org wrote: >> "man xxxxx" is a standard Unix-ism for finding out how to use >> something; Unix programs generally assume that the user knows how to >> use Unix :-) > Is it not in the best intrest of FreeBSD to encurage New users? We all > had/have to start someplace! > A simple 1 line: `See man xxxx(x) for documentation`, would point the > new user in the right direction. xxxx(x) is not always easy to determine > with some packages. pkg_info -f does it - it gives you the packing list, which should include any man pages provided. 0 out of 10 for 'easy for new users', though. -- Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk