[GRLUG] Documentation

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 06:11:30PM -0500, Joseph Workman wrote:
> I still use man page and info... they haven't gone anywhere...

Thanks to Debian.  Unfortunately the UNIX-y way seems to be on the
decline.  Used to be a GUI app was just a front-end to various CLI apps
that did one or two things really, really well.  Along with that
philosophy was the manpage.  Simple, elegant, useful.  Now many projects
don't provide manpages.  Debian developers write many and contribute
them upstream.  For example, I'm currently running the following apps:
Chromium, xchat, audacity, gftp, oowriter, evolution.  Of these, only
Chromium, audacity, and gftp were provided with a manpage.  Debian
provided the rest.  While the sample size is small, half the manpages
are from Debian.

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I sort of miss the days of Unix man pages.  Pretty straightforward,
> > and useful.
> >
> > Could someone put together a little word salad about current day
> > Linux documentation?  e.g., I see something like openssl-doc.
> > What's a standard way to access that?
> >
> > /usr/share/doc is the main repository?
> >
> > Remember, teach a man to fish and you don't need to hand him a fish
> > all the time.  i.e., more documentation means fewer questions.....
> >
> >    -- Bob
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