On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote:
> > 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!)
I am getting really annoyed with RedHat as of late about the manpage
situation though... Debian seems a little better. All too often I go
hunting for a manpage for some redhat add-on and there is none available.
It isn't just redhat though, there's a lack of manpages for a lot of stuff
that people are doing now.
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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