It wasn't condescending; "topic(page#)" like "environ(7)" is a very common way to express man pages, and if you aren't aware of what the user environment is you should probably do more research. Had you typed "environ(7)" into google before getting butthurt at the docs, you probably would have found out exactly what it was with no help from anyone. There is no reason to repost the manual page since there is already a manual page for it, the docs are fine the way they are; you just need to try to look a little harder, or be grateful when people help.
-Chad From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of SL Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nodejs] Re: process.env - documentation? Wow, thanks for the condescending and arrogant comment! I'm not suggesting there should be a 'tutorial' about any of those things you mentioned. However the docs at the moment are IMO a bit ambiguous about this point - it just says "An object containing the user environment. See environ(7)." I didn't realise immediately that this is talking about the OS environment variables - I'm sure I'm not the only one. On 1 November 2012 14:13, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: 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] <mailto: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] <mailto: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] <mailto:nodejs%[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] <mailto:nodejs%[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] <mailto:nodejs%[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
