On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-01-13, Franco Fichtner <[email protected]> wrote: >> There should be a let-me-find-that-man-page-for-you for that sort of thing. > > There is - post the question to misc@! > >> Or if there only was a way to search in man pages. :) > > But you'd half to read the manual for man(1) to learn all about that!
Someone makes a joke about apropos(1) and everyone feels to 'correct' that joke by spelling it out. Just a normal day on misc@. Thanks, but, no. You need to understand that people asking question here have no idea about the marvellous man pages in OpenBSD and they never will (because then they would not be asking in the first place). If it weren't for jmc@'s love for tweaking man pages I'd still be in that very same spot, but, fortunately, that hasn't been the case for a while now. Teaching is hard, but being impatient and judgmental on people asking questions is not the way, especially on an open mailing list. Having 'annoying' questions pop up again and again is an opportunity to do something fundamental to improve the situation. Nobody gets to get grumpy over it. But somewhere deep down, some people like it that way and do not wish to change it, because it may keep the 'dump' people away. For what it's worth, the original question got cleared up a few times over, so not all is lost. ;)
