From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 15:56:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA15396 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA15387 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-1.ime.net [206.231.148.130]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA20736; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:55:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31E191F8.20CD@ime.net> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 18:55:52 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Searle CC: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports suggestion References: <199607070624.XAA01726@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Searle wrote: > > 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. > Aye, I kinda like that, Although not many of the ports I have added have the packing list. (As you called it) Thanks. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848