Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:52:55 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Peeking over the parapet [ Was Re: /etc/hosts file ? FBSD doc suck ] Message-ID: <20011213005255.GA9242@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <009001c18351$54adf200$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15383.50879.147812.912148@guru.mired.org> <009001c18351$54adf200$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Hello, An Open Letter to AA Anonymous. Is it safe to go into the water again ? Surely this thread will have kept "him" warm and cosy for at least a few days now. Jeez. Let me stick my oar in here, because I am getting sick of the preaching of the likes of Anthony A. who seems to be the authority on all and everything. The man page on hosts. It assumes you know what an Ip address is, what a host/domain name is and what the word alias means. It then tells you how to construct a file with this information in it. That is it's job done. It is not a tutorial on IP addressing, name resolution, domains, IP dotted-quad notation etc. There are dozens of books on that, and you don't need a BSD specific one. The format of the hosts file is what it is there to explain. Would you expect a man page on bunzip2 to give you all the mathematics involved in it's compression algorithms ? A man page is not a tutorial document, it is a concisei description. often written in a very formal way (you would not want to learn how to use a shell from it's man page, but you may need a reminder of some syntactical thing, for example). If you don't understand IP addressing then buy a f*cking book about it. If a man page is opaque, then offer a rewrite of it, all the time you spend (and you know who *you* are) lecturing everyone on this list could be better spent doing that, i.e. something useful. But now we have endless nonsense about NT versus BSD desktops, uptime statistics, and now deficiencies in documentation. Some people have to pay for connection time to download this horse-shit before they confine it to the dustbin it belongs in. Instead of pointing at the problem, as you see it, make a practical contribution to it instead of eating bandwidth with your smart-arse junk. So there. And that is from someone who hardly ever loses their temper. Congratulations. You are back on my kill-list. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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