How to be helpful

Alan Milnes deep64blue at itguru.org.uk
Thu Jun 12 17:22:35 UTC 2008


Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Teaching by example is a VERY (if not THE MOST) efficient way to teach.
>   
Absolutely - that's why most man pages are useless if you don't know how 
to run the basic command.  Once you've got the hang of

/usr/sbin/flibbler then the man pages can be very helpful but very few of them will help you if you are really struggling to get the basic command going.

Alan





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