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Date:      Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:04:19 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, utisoft@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906050002030.40613@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <18984.11239.817035.710659@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
References:  <20090603235219.2e8abb8a.freebsd@edvax.de> <200906031700.45600.kirk@strauser.com> <20090604010054.a45f5880.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906040113270.28607@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <8BA60025-A005-4E38-9D5E-A9C11AB3C17C@strauser.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906041007400.31357@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <b79ecaef0906040223q34875f54wfb523c2cc893373e@mail.gmail.com> <20090604173535.984e32d6.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906041754580.34564@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <b79ecaef0906040920y4af8a67ck3f7a765a0f0c21fa@mail.gmail.com> <20090604174510.GA32547@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906041947550.35646@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <18984.11239.817035.710659@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

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> 	It is important to understand "man" is a _reference_, not a
> _tutorial_.  It's great if you need to refresh your memory of the

Handbook is a tutorial. And looking at files in /bin, /sbin/ etc.. and 
doing man was my way of learning unix years ago.

> to the _fillintheblank() library call.  But if you're trying to
> figure out how to do X, or even how to do X correctly using this
> object ... many of the pages can leave you with the feeling you're
> stupider than you actually are.

man Xorg
man xorg.conf

what's wrong?

> until there's a designated and widely promoted text-only replacement
text-only is important.

Xorg is not part of FreeBSD, not always work, may be not wanted in many 
cases and finally .. there are no need for any graphics to read text



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