On Monday 15 February 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >2010/2/15 Gene Heskett <[email protected]>: >> What makes you want to ask the question? The man pages are surprisingly >> up to date, possibly the best in the free software arena. > >Wow, thanks! >>blushes<< > >Dustin > I wouldn't want you to break an arm Dustin, but really, they seem to be in quite decent shape, which is more than can be honestly said about 98% of this bleeding edge stuff. Man pages that are 17 years out of date are one of my pet peeves. I don't recall now which one it was, but the manpage I checked for some reason about a month back had a 1993 date at the bottom of it. Grrrr. The only peeve that ranks above it are the clowns that think everyone has a working browser, compounded by hiding the .html files very carefully so they can't be found by anyone with any old time computer knowledge. The beginner of course can find them just for long enough to delete them usually. Makes me mutter about their ancestral family tree, and just enough curiosity to ask what was it they were smoking? So's if I should ever take the habit again, I'd know what NOT to buy... Not that that is very likely at this late stage, it will very soon be 21 years since I used tobacco in any form except 2nd hand smoke. I get enough of that from the other end of the house..
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
