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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: About the 'F' in RTFM
- Message-ID: <12529@inews.intel.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 16:12:03 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.155203.11430@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Jul26.190928.20817@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <5963@npri6.npri.com>
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- In article <5963@npri6.npri.com> murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy) writes:
- >>mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- >>At which point, of course, you reach up, pull down the appropriate
- >>manual, open it up, drop it in front of them and point. They then
- >>say, "Oh," and walk away looking sheeplike.
-
- >close, fred, but no cigar. assuming for the sake of argument
- >that the information really _is_ in the manual, then the novice
- >says "Oh. dammit, why isn't there an INDEX in this manual??"
-
- RTFM apropos(1), grep(1), and man(1).
-
- Except on AIX machines, where the <expletive completed> at
- IBM have decreed that HIDING the information in a bozonic,
- underpowered DBMS is somehow BETTER than having it out
- where people can FIND it.
-
- --Blair
- "One has an obligation."
-