-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 15:10, Kent West wrote: > oxy wrote: >>>> where is man here? There is only a strange xman :-[ >>>> The /usr/share/man is actually there ... >>>> >>> "man" stand for manual. As in "the document that tells you how to >>> use a piece of software". You might be too young to have ever seen one. >>> >>> But then, you might be a dog. I'd never know. >>> >>> >>>> an apropos? whatis? >>>> >>> Apropos: of an appropriate or pertinent nature. >>> >>> Software that tries to guess what you want to do, and suggest which >>> command-line app meets your need. >>> >>> >>>> `xtem --help` says that `xterm -fs 14` should work, but the font size >>>> does not change! >>>> >>> Can't answer that one... >>> >>> How new are you to the whole Unix world? A long time Windows user? >>> Computer nerd or "plain old user"? >>> >> >> I've being since nearly a decade using unix. I dont know what you >> intend with >> those vage answers, if u actually did not answer anything. The >> questions are quite >> ok, and if u were trying to play the big, you didnt convince. >> Please, help to keep the educational/informative purpose of the list. >> It's not a place to excercice your misleading superiority complex. >> >> > > I doubt there was a superiority complex thing going on here (although > that's just a guess on my part); although his answers are a bit vague, > your questions are also a bit vague (even though you think they're > "quite ok"). > > Without knowing your skill level, the respondent could only guess at how > much you know and how specific he needed to be, so he may have assumed > you were a newbie who wasn't actually asking what you meant to ask.
That's *exactly* why I asked. OP seems not to know what man pages are, so we need to know how much info to give him, and how to present it. > I had thought to answer you, but I also wasn't quite sure what you were > asking, so I waited to see if someone else responded first (I then > responded to your original). > > I say all this to let you know that the respondent was probably not > intending to do the "superiority" thing. > > >> Also, do not send email privately to me. Send to the list > > > Yes, the respondent did mess up on this point. I purposefully sent it private, since it appeared that he(?) was a rank noob, and those questions aren't the kind that you typically ask on a public mailing list. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHp4U7S9HxQb37XmcRAgXkAKC7lqrOdCar4ZFfE0zCr00Kgq2DVwCdFxhr z+pTlntqPX96n5JhL50VR3A= =LcuQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
