On Tuesday 26 September 2017 11:30:48 Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:21:35AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >I'll give you the ip man page as another perfect example. I've never > >read a more obtuse manpage in my life. I get the impression the > > manpage writer is charged 10 dollars a word for emmiting anything > > over 100 words. > > > >The whole man pages tree on the install I am currently doing is 13 > >megabytes. The sd card its on is 32 gigabytes, so we'll have at > > least 10 gigabytes we could use for man pages without impacting its > > ability to store and use a 300 kilobyte package, if they were just > > written to teach us what to do. > > If you aren't volunteering to write the man pages, could you at least > tone down the rhetoric and find a way to express your concerns without > the name calling and insulting characterizations? > > Mike Stone
I am not calling out a specific authors name, but as Johnny Carson once said in paraphrasing words if the foo shits, wear it. Looking at the overall picture vis-a-vis man pages, I call 'em like I see 'em. Remaining life to enjoy a well written manpage or pinfo output, for me is too short to do otherwise. I've had my 4 score + a few years already. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
