On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Eric Furman <[email protected]> wrote: > No one has been rude. They have just provided useful information. > Information that any first year UNIX user should know. > Many peoples gaps in UNIX knowledge, I believe, would be filled > by just picking up a book on basic UNIX. There are many. > Instead people just surf the internet and read FAQs and HOWTOs. > Dabble here, dabble there. Never really getting a good foundation > of UNIX basics. Then they end up on mailing lists asking questions > that they could have answered themselves very easily. This tends > to annoy people who do know the answers, because they worked > hard to obtain their knowledge. Sorry if I offended anyone. :) > > I find man -k much easier to spell, myself. :) >
It _is_ one of the fundamental rules of asking for help on the Internet - ask a question for which documentation exists and you will be pointed to said documentation. It's like asking a yes/no question and expecting a complicated answer, really - the response will be relevant, but possibly frustrating. > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013, at 02:26 PM, Jay Jennings wrote: >> Rudeness is why people find openbsd hard for newbies; and potentially new >> funders of the projects and buyers of cds and merchandise. >> >> As a 5 year user ... apropos is a new page for me too. >> >> Thank you for the suggestion. >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Michał Markowski <[email protected]> >> Date: >> To: Franco Fichtner <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: How to configure pppoe client on OpenBSD? >> >> 2013/1/13 Franco Fichtner <[email protected]>: >> > There should be a let-me-find-that-man-page-for-you for that sort of thing >> >> Well, there is apropos(1). :) >> >> >> >> -- >> Michał Markowski > -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
