on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:10:26PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
Sure, but you can always have "type this.. this does blah blah blah, then type this, 'blah' means ..". That way you don't only have an easy, hopefully working route outlined, but you also have something explaining what exactly you are doing and why.
The trouble with Linux when I started using it was that all the HOW-TO documents that did this were so hopelessly out of date that they were about as useful in the situation as an OS/2 manual would have been.
yes, i think the ldp has helped a lot with this. One thing a lot of coders hate/don't have time for/don't have the necessary skills for/etc is good documentation. Yet without it, to the average user most things would be useless.
The document that says type this, then this, then this is usually completly useless for 99% of people as they are having some kind of problem that you can't fix by doing things like that.
Absolutely, for that you have things like FAQs, usenet and mailing list archives, etc.