As you guessed, I'm developing on Windows. Thanks for the understanding! Yes a link would have avoided all confusion.
On 1 November 2012 17:42, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using since before it was popular. Back in the early days, > the docs for node were full of references to linux man pages like > this. My background was scripting languages and I had never done any > C programming so I had no clue what readdir(3) meant. To open a file > back then you had to manually bitwise OR the various unix flags > together yourself. (Using "r", "w", "a", etc was an addition I made) > > Things now are much easier for people without a C background and there > are many fewer parts left in the docs that assume knowledge of man > pages. > > That said, I did eventually figure out it was referencing man pages. > I was a linux user after all, I had just never used man to lookup C > APis. > > How about we just link to one of the man mirrors in the API docs? I > was an experienced linux user and I still didn't know what the docs > were talking about, I can only imagine how confused windows users > would be. > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Chad Engler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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]> > > 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 > > -- > 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. 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