According to David Johnson: While burning my CPU.
>
> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> >According to Deirdre Saoirse: While burning my CPU.
> >>
> >> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> >>
> >> > According to Deirdre Saoirse: While burning my CPU.
> >>
> >> > Actualy if i may say so without showing any disrespect, 90% of questions
> >> > would be answered IF the asker read the flipping manuals, as per RTFM.
> >>
> >> Yes, but WHICH manual? That's a question that often frustrates a newbie. I
> >> can't blame someone for not knowing what something is called (like IP
> >> masquerading) and then asking about it.
> >
> >That question is quite easy to find an answer to, in ALL linux distro's,
> >there is a complete directory absolutly full of documentation files, namely
> >/usr/doc, there is further more the "info" system (when installed) and then
> >the man pages, aside all that there are normaly README files in archives
> >like the one you picked as an example.
>
> The average users of Dos95 or Mac have absolutely no knowledge of Unix
> or Unix-like operating systems. It's going to take them a while to
> figure out that "dir" does not list a directory. It's going to take
> them even longer to find out where /usr/doc is. Then once they find it,
> they'll spend inordinate amounts of time figuring out how to display
> it. It matters not whether there are gigabytes of essential, useful and
> lucid information in /usr/doc if the new user can't find it.
If i may say so, the average user of Win9x does not even know how that
system works, all they are told is that, all they need to do is "click"
upon an icon and Bill Gates does the rest, of course that is sales talk.
There is of course commands like 'find' 'help' on DOS systems, so with a
little thought a necommer to *NIX has a flying start, its just that he
does not know that fact.
Anyway, i must agree with your comments, however if one reads the
INSTALL.TXT file (or its equalent) which comes with every distribution
then they would know where to look for information, i must admit even that
file does not tell folks to look into /usr/doc but "always" has a referance
to 'sunsite' which is now of course metalab.
I suppose thats because installing the documentation is up to the user,
who possably would not install that package because of disk-space etc.
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> New users will appreciate easy-to-find and understand documentation
> that will give them enough to get started with. Whether this
> information is in the form of a "readme" file in their home directory,
> or a two page pamphlet in their distribution's box matters not.
Now that is a good idea.
>
> David Johnson
>
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Regards Richard.
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