Re: Manpage interpreter

From: Joshua Tinnin (krinklyfig_at_spymac.com)
Date: 12/24/04

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:02:49 -0800

    On Thursday 23 December 2004 07:40 pm, "Sally Hines"
    <shines@smaller.net> wrote:
    > I want to thank everyone for offering me good information on
    > automating the ports update. My real question, though, is how to read
    > and understand manpages. Where is the interpreter? I know I am not
    > the only noob to ever have this problem? I can solve my own problems
    > much better if I can interpret the instructions.

    I think it would help if you gave a specific example. I don't think
    there is any such thing as an interpreter, per se, but if there is
    something confusing about a manpage, you can ask. I realize you said
    the questions list was intimidating, but if you are very specific about
    what you don't understand, you can usually get an answer. It's happened
    to me before where someone has told me to read the manpage for a
    particular command or file, and I still didn't understand it, but it
    helps if you point out what you don't understand about it, otherwise
    it's sometimes difficult to answer. There are also ways to
    problem-solve and find the answer even when you are given confusing
    instructions, but it would help if you gave me a specific example of
    something you didn't understand to show you.

    - jt
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