On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:48:46AM +0100, Gina Lanik wrote:
> um, excuse me, maybe I didn't get your point but what is wrong about
> RTFM? I keep telling ppl on irc to do man this, man that, since the
> manuals mostly give the most decent/in-depth info... and can be more
> accurate than my description....
> </close-penny-jar>
Well, Ms Newbie has just installed Linux for the first time. Presuming
the install went well, everything is fine for a few days. Ms Newbie
wants to find out something.
On IRC:
MsNewbie21> How do I install/fix/get blah?
Random> RTFM, clueless newbie!
Depending on how new you are, you don't know where the manuals are. Man
is useless if you don't know the command. There are some people
installing Linux these days who have *never* used a command prompt.
Even telling someone to read the manual is assuming an amount of prior
knowledge.
So if someone is saying 'How do I get PHP to work with Apache?' you
might say 'manual here, best section is here' and leave them to it, if
the question is 'how do I get my linux to talk to my internet?' you're
probably looking at the don't know where the manuals are stage.
Basically, trigger-finger RTFM is not good.
Mary.
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