On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yesterday, Karl J. Runge gleaned this insight:
> Linuxdoc.org on the CD and/or installed in /usr/doc. I've seen the
> documentation that Sun ships, and it sucks. Until at least Solaris 2.6
> their manpages were woefully incomplete.
It has gotten a lot better in the 3 years since 2.6 came out. As far
as raw counts of man pages go, about 4600 for RH 6.2 and about 9600 for
Solaris 8. (please no flames; I understand this isn't the full picture).
Much of the above numbers are pages covering the API's, the more there
are makes it easier for developement (I often find myself logging into
a Solaris box to read manpages for library functions not documented on
Linux. Then I cross my fingers the interface is the same :-)
I do agree with digging and using usenet most everything in Linux & OSS
is documented. And the source is available to most everything out
there, so as a resort you can go to that (and I certainly have at
times!)
Cheers,
Karl Runge
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