-pages. But I can do the
transformation if necessary.
>
> --jikl
>
> [snip]
> .Dd May 17, 2021
> .Dt MAN-INTRO 1
> .\"Os [OPERATING_SYSTEM] [version/release]
> .Sh NAME
> .Nm man-intro
> .Sh DESCRIPTION
> Most of the software installed on the system you are usin
d, as
evidenced by its abandonment of info(1) in favor of man(1). But the
conversion is incomplete and (in my estimation) likely to remain that
way.
--jkl
P.S. I have version 2 of man-intro.1 ready, but I want to make sure
I've incorporated all feedback before I post it. As you can see from
this post and the next, I got ... distracted.
James K. Lowden wrote:
> Attached is a straw man 1st draft of what an introduction to the man
> system might look like. If it clears the threshold of raspberries,
> perhaps we can mold it into something useful.
>
> I think the page should be called man-intro, or intro-man
On 5/23/21, Oliver Corff wrote:
> in a follow-up to my last message I just want to give one real-world
> example of a very terse manpage, "for the initiated reader only."
>
> Take refer(1).
There is an open bug report documenting the deficiencies of the refer
man page (http://savannah.gnu.org/bug
On Sun, May 23, 2021, Oliver Corff wrote:
> in a follow-up to my last message I just want to give one
> real-world example of a very terse manpage, "for the initiated
> reader only."
>
> Take refer(1).
> Terseness is nice, but in the case presented here the first paragraph of
> DESCRIPTION in the
ference between man
and help?
Not finding "cd" in a man page means that it is a shell internal; this
could be stated as an explicite reason why it doesn't come with its own
manpage.
Perhaps a note of caution to the novice reader could be added in
man-intro by mentioning that a sm
eader could be added in
man-intro by mentioning that a small number of utilities do not come
with their associated manpage, but require --help for an overview of
invocation, arguments and parameters, while other "subsystems" (I think
of TeX and friends) come with their own, extensive do
Hi Clarke,
At 2021-05-22T21:09:56-0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
> I don't know why that would occur...
>
> (Aside note):
> [In the HP-UX Reference Manual (HP's Unix which was POSIX compliant) I
> produced in late 1992, which contained all manpages, there is a
> manpage included in Volume 1 on page 9
I don't know why that would occur...
(Aside note):
[In the HP-UX Reference Manual (HP's Unix which was POSIX compliant) I
produced in late 1992, which contained all manpages, there is a manpage
included in Volume 1 on page 91 and 92 with the heading at the top of each
past: "cd(1)". The manual c
Ulrich Lauther wrote in
<20210522214249.GA20730@starlite>:
|On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 08:18:41PM +0200, Oliver Corff wrote:
|>
|> "man cd", on the other hand, opens the bash built-in command *man page*,
|> which, at least on my system is a plethora of text to read (and digest).
|>
|on my syt
On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 08:18:41PM +0200, Oliver Corff wrote:
>
> "man cd", on the other hand, opens the bash built-in command *man page*,
> which, at least on my system is a plethora of text to read (and digest).
>
on my sytem (ubunto mate) "man cd" results in "No manual entry for cd".
> Just m
ning into a general "intro to Linux" page, but that
was, to my mind, always going to be an impossibly huge scope. I'm
not a huge fan of what is there.
Attached is a straw man 1st draft of what an introduction to the man
system might look like. If it clears the threshold of raspberries,
On 5/17/21, James K. Lowden wrote:
> Attached is a straw man 1st draft of what an introduction to the man
> system might look like. If it clears the threshold of raspberries,
> perhaps we can mold it into something useful.
I think it looks great!
I'm admittedly not its target audience, as I hav
is a straw man 1st draft of what an introduction to the man
system might look like. If it clears the threshold of raspberries,
perhaps we can mold it into something useful.
I think the page should be called man-intro, or intro-man. (Need
help? Never fear, Intro Man is here!) I included what
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