Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:40:01 +0100 (CET) From: Wouter Van Hemel <wouter@fort-knox.rave.org> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should common/traditional Unix SA tasks be documented? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201260026330.5899-100000@fort-knox.rave.org> In-Reply-To: <pahepa6pp1.epa@localhost.localdomain>
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On 25 Jan 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > In a recent -questions thread, a Linux refugee gave up trying to > determine how to set the clock. (There are two of them which may be > set, but I'll leave the issue related to that for a PR.) It's not > documented in the Handbook or FAQ, "make -k clock" is no help, and "make > -k time" gives 840 words in 80 lines that few will find "date" in. > > I'm wondering whether such things should be documented in the Handbook. > Several posters seemed to think that he was an idiot for not knowing > that "date" sets the clock, either because it's traditional Unix or it's > in Unix books or man pages. > > I seemed to me that an OS Handbook should be like the User's Manuals > which (used to?) come with OSes and other software. The man pages are > [...] I agree. I am using unix systems for 4 years now, and sometimes (less and less) I still 'find' commands I didn't know the existance of, or at least I kinda forgot about them. Lost month I discovered 'cal', for instance. Although it wasn't really the most shocking thing that ever happened to me, it surprised me a bit to still discover something I didn't know or remember was there. Besides... there really isn't mentioned anything about 'date' in the handbook? I'd say that _is_ a bit of a shortcoming... wouter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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