RPM

[Karl Larsen]

Andrew Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 15:13 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>   
>> Dave Burns wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On 10/30/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>     I printed out Maximum RPM in 1997 and I refer to it often. I was
>>>> told today to use:
>>>>
>>>>     # rpm -q --whatprovides (complete direction to a file) and it did
>>>> provide the name of the file that provides /etc/rc.d/init.d/nvideo.
>>>>
>>>>     Then just now I got to page 51 and there it listed this capability.
>>>> I have had this capability for 8 years but didn't know it...
>>>> :-)
>>>>         
>> If you learn to read man pages you don't need so many books.  They are a 
>> lot faster to read, too.
>>     
>
> But a lot less convenient on the bus (train, plane, toilet, in the park
> near the lake, on the couch during commercials, in the waiting room at
> the doctor's office, etc and so forth). And they just aren't as bloody
> "sexy" as a nicely printed book, are they? :-)
>
> And, as this list and certain of its members have indeed quite recently
> shown, not every man page is written in a way that Joe Lunchbox can
> readily assimilate. Heck, let's be blunt here. Some of them are
> remarkably poorly written.
>
> That said, I'm not in complete disagreement with you, Les. RTFM is even
> today completely apropos and should be the mantra of everybody who's
> chosen to be part of the Linux experience. But don't knock a book,
> Maestro. It kind of pisses us scribblers off.
> ;-)
>
> Andy
>
> (Every try to loan a great man page to a friend?)
>
>
>
>
>   
    I though I was just old and used to books. I recall how happy I was 
to find that book and be able to print it. It is in a big 3 ring binder 
and up in the book shelf. Easy to find. But it does help to read it. And 
it is NOT a good book :-)



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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