Daniel Baumann wrote:
Notice:
- explanation of purpose
- clear summary of how it works and how to use it
The man page was derived from the "classic", decades old traceroute
implementation from Van Jacobson, with some additions regarding the new
features. The text itself was reviewed by some English-native by Red Hat.
Sorry, I cannot quite understand (and hence cannot make a decision) what
you are say about.
Being a little conservative, I prefer to save the old traditional text
base. (One of the key features of this implementation is a maximum
compatibility with the traditional traceroute from Van Jacobson. Even in
texts :) ).
- examples
It seems an extra thing for me.
The traceroute is a "command line utility", targeted for "sysadmins,
power users etc.". All such people should already know what traceroute
is for. They should not teach this utility at the "man traceroute" time
anyway.
Even when "an end user" perform some trace, he/she should do it by the
ask of some supporter (who is sysadmin/power user). Else what he tries
to do knowing nothing about IP?
For users who heard about IP proto and are curious how his traffic goes
throw the World, some GUI applications are applicable ("xtraceroute" was
for this purpose). And certainly the manual for such applications should
be more informative for such "end users".
- related information for the puzzled reader
A teacher at the school should explain for such "the puzzled reader" all
the things. The skilled users prefer to see the additional options (in
the man text) more quickly, and any extra text "for educational purpose"
would irritate them.
Regards,
Dmitry
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