Szerző: Paul M <paulm@uk.psi.net> Dátum: Címzett: Philip Hazel CC: Chris Faehl, Exim users mailing list Tárgy: Re: [EXIM] Manpages for Exim ?
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Chris Faehl wrote:
> > Man pages are the Way to Unix Mastery. Man pages are convenient, whereas
> > trying to find the specific information I want in 100+ pages of paper
> Then there are those who argue that skimming around an ASCII file with
> And there are those who argue that Texinfo is the WtUM.
no, true unix masters don't read the man pages, they use hexdumps of
the executable on paper tape and can disassemble it in their heads to reverse
engineer the functionality.
A guru on the other hand uses a compass to read the bits on a magnetic core
memory.
#include python.std
... and if you tell that to the young-uns today, they don't believe you :-)
