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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 jon davey wrote: > On Monday 10 Mar 2003 10:01 am, Kai Hendry wrote: > >>On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:36:24 +0000, jon davey wrote: >> >>>>Btw, I don't see how printing off man pages is going to be good >>>>reading. I can print for free, and the only pieces of paper found on my >>>>desk is a notepad with some pencil scribblings. We know Kai lives in utopia, I have a notebook, chess scores, and lots of post-it notes, along with some books and magazines - but I still have to boot a Windows box to print stuff out (this doesn't happen often last time was for a group with a Word document as the membership application). Printing is the convenient alternative to reading, photocopying is much the same. Faye stills seems to destroy rainforests with alarming regularity. >>>Oh....something about the way my brain has been trained finds it easier >>>to, when I need to read a scentance and copy it, read from paper >>>unfortunatly. Is that what you meant or is there a better way of learning >>>commands than the man pages altogher?. I learnt most of Unix using "man -k" and "man", but it isn't a good way. You can learn a lot quicker with a training course, or a good book. Command options are trivia, don't bother learning them just install the manual pages. The important options will stick through repetition. Things like the options to fsck are probably best checked against the manual before using them anyway!!!! The main thing is to know that a command to do something exists, and if you can remember it's name, so much the better. Even then some commands vary between *nix's in worrying ways, "killall" is the most notorious. In the Linux world "info" trumps "man". >>My point is this. Read a man page, and scribble seemingly useful >>switches on paper. It is a learning technique. Printing out man pages >>won't help you learn as much. Don't tell George, but one of the most useful things I learnt at University is it is okay to scribble on books (at least scribble on your your own books ;-). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+bHVLGFXfHI9FVgYRAla1AJkBg/i6+WRJ+cVnAf9r8BttBlysEQCeOs1d ZGYjRcdYvrY0aQgjOr1ErDw= =Hx6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.