I somewhat agree that some of the answers you are getting have somewhat been (sometimes, not all, and not constantly) been insulting. But a year or so ago I was also a Plan9 newbie, and I just read the manuals when I didn't know how to do something. I followed some long-ago-read advice of first smashing my head against the keyboard before asking the "online guru." And by no means I'm an expert in systems programming, other *nixes or anything beside a small branch of mathematics (and this is fading, since I'm no longer actively researching) and a lot of stuff used in SEO and related areas by constant daily use at work.
I have probably read acme(1) and acme(4) more than 70 times in the past year, and probably double that for plumb and plumber (in all of their sections.) And there are still a lot of things I don't understand when interacting with them, just the other day dove into acme's source to answer a question in #plan9 (about what the Abort command does.) Ruben On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Blake McBride <[email protected]> wrote: > Documentation is always clear to people who already know the material but > use the documentation as a reminder. It is difficult for a newbie to > differentiate out-of-date material, branch specific material, and valid > documentation. I am providing feedback from a newbie's perspective. You > can either take advantage of some of the feedback to make it easier for a > newbie (that cannot reason) thus increasing the number of users, or you can > insult them until they leave. I apologize for not being as smart as you. > > > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Kurt H Maier <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Quoting Blake McBride <[email protected]>: >> >> Or perhaps: >>> >>> echo newuser USER-NAME >>/srv/cwfs.cmd >>> >>> replace USER-NAME with the new user's name. If most commands are in >>> lowercase, it might make sense to use uppercase names as things that >>> need >>> to be specified. >>> >> >> Or perhaps we use the documentation as a way to weed out people who cannot >> reason. >> >> khm >> >> >> >
