linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: New to group with QUESTION

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:27:54PM -0000, Paul wrote:
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Scott <scottro@...> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:13:29PM
> > a friend telling me that if a man page
> > made no sense to me, go to the FreeBSD site and read theirs.
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> If they were really your friend they'd have told you that man pages are by and large just left for historical posterity and you should be using info docs. Although some applications try to maintain actual useful man pages. I guess the inconsistency is a bit confusing.
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Why would they tell me that when the BSD man pages are so much better
than the info docs, written more clearly, making it far easier to find
examples, and the like?

http://xkcd.com/912/

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