Autor: Juha Saarinen Data: Dla: Dave C. CC: Sheldon Hearn, Tabor J. Wells, exim-users@exim.org Temat: Re: [Exim] Why no man pages for Exim on FreeBSD?
Yes, that's entirely true. However, after text files, man is the easiest
thing to use.
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Dave C. wrote:
>
> I must again speak up for the simple - I find the the plain ASCII text
> version of the specification the easiest to use. In fact, its the only
> one I've ever needed. Pipe it into your favorite pager and it works just
> like a man page. It even includes a handy search function!
>
> Just type:
>
> cat spec.txt | grep <what-you-want-to-look-for-here>
>
> Indexes, cross-references, page numbers and pretty-printing don't add
> anything to documentation for me. The ability to easily and quickly read
> it, even if I was stuck on a VT100 terminal with a 1200BPS connection,
> is much more useful.
