Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:47:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 'rtfm' script Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907061746380.8535-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907061439020.8187-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com>
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On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Doug wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> >
> > > > Which can be disabled in the bash port before the next release...
> > >
> > > No, that's a really stupid idea.
> >
> > Thanks! But still, I don't think rtfm is very appropriate... Can we look
> > for something better, more obvious? Or perhaps it would be in the motd
> > like /stand/sysinstall is.... people would need to be aware of this.
>
> I think your logic is faulty here. There are already many adequate
> resources in the motd, but your argument for the 'rtfm script' presupposes
> that the person has not looked at the motd, because if they had they
> wouldn't need the script.
/bin/rtfmsh?
>
> Honestly, while this is one of those things that sounds good when
> you first start talking about it, in practice I don't see what we gain
> from it.
>
> Doug
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