On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:40:09 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> I have looked at some of those Linux README files. Quite unlike > the README files that come with DOS and Windows programs, the > instructions are not simple enough for newbies to understand at all. > If the Linux program authors would simply desist from talking over > everyone's heads then Linux would become a much more popular OS. I bet if you were as familiar with Linux as you are with DOS then the Readme files would make just as much sense. Without that basic and hard won familiarity most program documentation is close to being incomprehensible because it will refer offhandedly to concepts and structures that are not intuitive and self-explanatory. All readme files are written that way. They only make sense if you have that basic knowledge already. Of course, Unix is a more complicated structure than DOS and the commands are cryptic and terse. It was developed by a bunch of lazy typists! <grin> Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
