From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 6 13:46:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032A814FE5; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:46:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp18394.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.74]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA19369; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:49:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA69691; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:47:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:47:00 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Chris Costello , Doug , Alex Zepeda , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 'rtfm' script Message-ID: <19990706164700.D59236@mad> References: <19990706134739.G4158@holly.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian F. Feldman on Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 02:52:08PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 02:52:08PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). > > > > That would cause problems with bash users. They already have > > a builtin help command. > > Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next release... Ugh. No. Objection on the grounds of "create more problems than it solves". We've already seen enough confusion from builtins such as time(1) having conflicting names. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message