Re: Deprecated

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner best com>]

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<sarcasam on>

Sorry that's a secret and if I told you, I'd have to kill you.

Seriously though, uh... well... that's a hard one.  See there's this
hardly known command in the Linux community called 'man' which is short
for *gasp* "manual".  And if you type this little known command followed
by the command you want to know more about (like 'ps'), it amazingly
prints out all this really cool information about how to use the command.

But, please don't tell anyone I told you... this is a closely guarded
secret amoung UNIX gurus everywhere, and if word leaked out about this
command clueless newbies everywhere might get a clue and stop asking
questions that are clearly documented.  And then someone at Bell Labs will
have to come up with an even more obscure and difficult operating system
to confuse and confound users everwhere.  (Oh wait, MicroSoft already did
that with NT's and the bindery.)

</sarcasam off>

Ok, I'm done being really sarcastic to make a point.  And I hope Pete
doesn't feel that I'm singling him out, because I'm not.  But seriously,
too many people ask questions which are clearly documented.  I'll be the
first to admit that the man pages can be obtuse.  There are however many
other quality places to find answers to questions:

The Linux Documentation Project
The Red Hat Errata
The Red Hat FAQ
The list archives
The Red Hat Linux User's FAQ
and many many more

And yes, the lists do serve a purpose: to help people find the
documentation that helps them solve their problem or walk them through
solutions which have no documentation.  "Give a man a fish and he eats for
a day.  Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime."  Same holds true
with helping and documentation.

Getting off my soap box.... 
Please direct flames to: president whitehouse gov

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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Pete wrote:

> This is an amazing piece of info, just how do people come across 
> such information?  I'm trying to read and understand all that I can 
> about Linux and I'm always struggling, yet others know of such 
> obsecure detail!!!  :)
> 
> Amazing..
> 
> > Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> > 
> > > Try the following :
> > > 
> > > I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS=1
> > > export I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS
> > > 
> > > This causes the it doesn't give an error anymore.
> > > 
> > > The messages IS annoying, because most programs use - for options.
> > > 
> > 
> > Amazing! But it works!  Now I can specify "ps -ax" instead of
> > "ps ax" and do not get the annoying deprecated message anymore.
> > 
> > You are right about the annoyance factor.  After several years of
> > typing these things out, the fingers get used to putting in that
> > dash in there without thinking.  I do not imagine that newbies
> > would have this problem, but us in the Over_50 crowd sure do!
> > 
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> Pete
> 
> In a world with out fences, who needs Gates?
> 
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