I'm not a sysadmin, but I thought these days we were supposed to point [end]users at "help" or "doc" instead of man? Man is like sdb, it's great but not for everyone, you need context to appreciate it. I think in System V type derivatives it's usually "help"? peter
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) <james.p....@jpl.nasa.gov>wrote: > > > On 10/21/11 9:12 AM, "Prentice Bisbal" <prent...@ias.edu> wrote: > > > >Ellis, > > > >Using nohup was exactly the advice I gave to one of my users yesterday. > >Not sure if he'll use it. 'man' is a very difficult program to learn, > >from what I understand. > > Well... 'man' is easy, but sometimes, you need decent examples and > tutorials. Just knowing what all the switches are and the format is like > giving someone a dictionary and saying: now write me a sonnet. This is > especially so for the "swiss army knife" type utilities (grep, I'm looking > at you!) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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