[MPlayer-users] Documentation and dumb questions

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > > p.s.: recommended doc reading is from "line 1" to "line last" .
> > This is supposed to be movie player.
> > And you can't seriously expect people to read the manuals ...
> Standard answer : This movie player is for people who read manuals.

hmm. good idea...

as Movie Player for Linux is outdated (it's no linux only, but even no
unix only any more) why not rename it? :)

MPlayer - Movie Player for people reading manuals :)

it's a bit long, so what about:

MPlayer - Movie Player for RTFM people :)

> > Have your read carefully 'man ls' before you first used 'ls' ?
> > I haven't.
> Believe it or not, but when I found 'man', I ran it on all the commands
> I was about to execute. :)
:))))))))

> And :
> 
> $ ls -l /bin/ls
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        65318 Oct 29 12:26 /bin/ls
> $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/mplayer
> -rws--s---    1 root     root      1449220 Nov 26 19:39 /usr/local/bin/mplayer
> 
> You don't have to read the manual for a water squirt gun, but you really should
> when handling a thermonuclear warhead. :)
:)))))))))))))))


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