From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Apr 17 16:53:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155D237B9FC for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA355D; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:54:25 -0700 Message-ID: <38FBA38A.D508F764@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:51:38 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Young Cc: Gail Pickett , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, m l mack Subject: Re: newbies References: <020901bfa8c0$61498aa0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Young wrote: > When I manage to figure unix stuff out (not only FreeBSD .... SCO & Solaris > are much the same) its amazing how simple most of it really is ..... its > only the > typically martian documentation that makes concepts difficult to grasp Interesting little tidbit I ran across yesterday. As many of you all are away, Richard Stallman is very concerned with GNU documentation, and is willing to pay out hard fought FSF cash to those who would write documentation. It therefore came as a surprise to me while perusing the gcc man page the following words (paraphrased) "It is hard work maintaining this documentation. We prefer you to use the info pages. If we get too many complaints about this man page we will discontinue it alltogether." David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message