Re: [Lnx-bbc-devel] Re: site FAQ - question missing...

On Friday 15 August 2003 15:26, Nick Moffitt wrote:

> 	At any rate, once you're up on the net, you'll soon be able to
> read man pages.  I don't think anyone here (except for maybe Niall)
> believed that everyone should just memorize command-line switches or
> anything.

Ah jeebus - I don't come across as that much of a facist, do I ? I'm a big fan 
of man pages, as those I regularly tell to RTFM will attest, and I wish the 
BBC had space for them, but the net can help there. My position is that the 
BBC is a wonderful rescue tool, but that you do need to have a certain level 
of expertise to use it (the automotive equivalent might be Sun's wonderful 
diagnostic machines. It would be very nifty for a clueful mechanic to be able 
to have a Palm Pilot sized version of same, but no matter how much you jazzed 
up its interface, it wouldn't enable me to fix my car). I just don't see the 
point in trying to make the BBC usable by an AOLer. But that's the joy of an 
open source project - people can scratch their own itches.


-- 
Niall