[MPlayer-users] Documentation and dumb questions

SMuelas smuelas at mecanica.upm.es
Fri Nov 30 17:20:54 CET 2001


On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 15:16, Thomas Prokosch wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html &
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or problems]
> 
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:34:33AM +0100, Dariusz Pietrzak wrote:
> > And you can't seriously expect people to read the manuals ...
> > Have your read carefully 'man ls' before you first used 'ls' ?
> > I haven't.
> >  hehe - and have your read 'man man' before using man for the first
> > time?;)
> >  Users need forum for users - somewhere where they can ask all those
> > annoying useless questions, and where others which asked those questions
> 
> This is not true IMHO
> When I have a problem with a particular problem, I
> 1. call man
> 2. check out the web page
> 3. ask in the mailing list
> 
> in this order.
> And I am convinced that most people do it the same way (perhaps point
> 1 and 2 in reversed order).
> 
> What would be really good: documentation clearly structured, with a
> table of contents, browsable, if possible.
> For example, it is not easy for me to find the FAQ on the web page.
> If I didn't knew that it exists, I would have never found it...

By the way, how can I find it ?

> 
> Just my 2 cents.
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> Some people claim that the UNIX learning curve is steep, but at least you
> only have to climb it once.
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