Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jun 1999 02:07:37 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: documentation for iproute2 and friends |
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Hi Simon.
>> Do you really like troff? I do not believe... Well, no problems. >> Make them!
> what's wrong with troff?
Nothing that I can see. His/her comments sound like they have the same basis as those heard on a so-called science documentary on TV recently where the man being interviewed commented that he didn't drink milk because the cows it came from might be on a farm that kept battery hens, and he didn't believe battery hens was safe...
> at least with man pages i can go "man iproute" and get something
On some of the systems I use, man pages are the ONLY form of documentation available.
>> What's about me, I daresay I never read manpages, particularly >> because I cannot stop retch when remember what they are prepared >> from 8)8)
> i find documentation quite useful :-|
Personally, when I review a UNIX program to consider recommending it to one or more of my clients, the lack of a man page gets an immediate black mark, and documentation only in the so-called info format gets a second one. The program with the fewest black marks gets recommended to the customer, unless there is some over-riding reason to choose one of the others.
Note that my use of UNIX in the above paragraph was deliberate, as I get to advise clients running many different dialects of UNIX, Linux being just one of them, and I follow the same procedure in every case.
Best wishes from Riley.
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