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[Martin Habets]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:25:21AM +0100, DreamIsDead wrote:
> Hey,
> At the end of last nights meeting a few of us were discussing how entirely
> unreadable most linux man pages are and how awkward it can be to figure out
> how to use something new to you just from following man pages (since asking
> other people would generally just result in being told to RTFM).
> I was thinking it could be good to have a collection of plain english man
> pages for commonly used commands.  These wouldn't need to include every
> option and feature available, just basic information and without paragraphs
> of background information and history on whatever you are planning to do.
> 
> For example trying to work out how to create a zip archive for the first
> time seems pretty complicated just from reading through the man page, and
> most users aren't going to need information about operating on certain files
> from the archive depending on their date of creation. So giving a small,
> clear, amount of information, covering the operations most people will want
> to preform on basic, useful commands probably wouldn't involve too much
> work.
> 
> Anyway, I guess this would probably fit in the wiki that everyone seemed to
> approve of last night, I mostly just wanted to put the idea out there to
> check whether a well known resource like this exists that I have just failed
> to notice.

ehh... man busybox !

Pun intended,
Martin
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30 years from now GNU/Linux will be as redundant a term as MERT/UNIX is 
today. - Martin Habets
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