From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 11:50:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0015137B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 11:50:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 99657 invoked by uid 100); 26 Nov 2000 19:50:22 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14881.27005.864633.601456@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 13:50:21 -0600 (CST) To: Jim Conner Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The real Unix problem In-Reply-To: <2713368@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Conner types: > Anybody could have asked the very same question in a much more acceptable > manner...especially from the start. Oh, come on - it was clearly a troll. It worked, to - I wasted time reading the replies, and making this one :-(. > I have to admit, that the ONE thing > that drives me NUTTY are those who when they first get asked a question > their first response is : RTFM!! That depends on how accurate a pointer they provide you to the FM in question. While FreeBSD shines by having lots of documentation, it's scattered across three different document sets (FAQ, handbook, and man pages). RTFM is a perfectly acceptable manual, so long as it includes a URL or man(1) page reference.