You maybe misread me - I *am* suggesting there should be a tutorial about those things. I just think it belongs outside of the node core docs. Or in a book.
The node core docs should give you exactly accurate minimal information to point you in the right direction (aka google) if you need/want to know more. On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:16 PM, SL <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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 >> > > -- > 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
