If the docs covered every aspect of how programming networks, child processes, systems and filesystems worked they would be huge.
There's a place for tutorials though - but it's not in the core docs IMHO. If you don't know what an environment variable is then you have some basic learning to do before diving straight into programming. On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:28 PM, SL <[email protected]> wrote: > Or we could make the docs a bit clearer... > > > On 31 October 2012 18:46, Jorge > <jorge%[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 31 oct, 17:26, Scott Elcomb <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Jorge >> > >> > <jorge%[email protected]> wrote: >> > > On Oct 31, 2:04 pm, Bgsosh <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> Hi, I'm tring to understand the structure of the process.env object, >> but >> > >> the online docs just say 'An object containing the user environment. >> See >> > >> environ(7).' >> > >> > >> I can't find 'environ(7)' (whatever that is!). Is this documented >> > >> somewhere? >> > >> > > Type this in the terminal: >> > >> > > $ man 7 environ >> > >> > That'd be tricky for Windows users to do if they're not running a >> > *nix-like shell. (Cygwin comes to mind) >> > >> > I'd imagine the best bet for Windows users would be to search for "man >> > 7 environ" on the web to find a copy of the relevant man page; there >> > are a number of mirrors like the one Adam suggested. >> > >> > (BTW, for those not familiar with man pages, see also >> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page>) >> >> >> Perhaps Windowzs users should better search for "environment >> variables" @ msdn or something, I guess, yeah. >> -- >> Jorge. >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
