<div>I'm not a sysadmin, but I thought these days we were supposed to point [end]users at "help" or "doc" instead of man? Man is like sdb, it's great but not for everyone, you need context to appreciate it. I think in System V type derivatives it's usually "help"?</div>
<div>peter<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.p.lux@jpl.nasa.gov">james.p.lux@jpl.nasa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br><br>On 10/21/11 9:12 AM, "Prentice Bisbal" <<a href="mailto:prentice@ias.edu">prentice@ias.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>>Ellis,<br>><br>>Using nohup was exactly the advice I gave to one of my users yesterday.<br>>Not sure if he'll use it. 'man' is a very difficult program to learn,<br>>from what I understand.<br>
<br>Well... 'man' is easy, but sometimes, you need decent examples and<br>tutorials. Just knowing what all the switches are and the format is like<br>giving someone a dictionary and saying: now write me a sonnet. This is<br>
especially so for the "swiss army knife" type utilities (grep, I'm looking<br>at you!)<br><br><br>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a> sponsored by Penguin Computing<br>
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