Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: nyu notesfiles V1.1 4/1/84; site rna.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!rna!serge From: serge@rna.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Olson on VMS Manuals Message-ID: <43000003@rna.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 09:59:00 EST Article-I.D.: rna.43000003 Posted: Wed Jan 9 09:59:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:11:58 EST References: <-22000@uokvax.UUCP> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:uokvax:2200084:rna:43000003:000:1021 Nf-From: rna!serge Jan 2 09:59:00 1985 You have to learn how to use the UNIX manuals properly. When I was a struggling beginner (raised on DEC manuals) a wise old UNIX guru said to me: "use the SEE ALSO entry, stupid". Minutes later I said, "oh yeah, here it is. Thanx" And ever since then I have lived happily ever after (99% of the time.) Perhaps one other experience was very valuable, and that was learning how to use the RSX Whitesmiths C compiler which came with super terse UNIX style documentation. I must say at times I was very frustrated but in the end I got things going just as fast as if it were the first time I was using a DEC manual. Learning to use any manual set is not easy, especially for something as rich as UNIX or as stupidly done as VMS. You have to sit down and LEARN. And this means learing how the manuals work, as well as the system they describe. This is hard, slow work, and I know of no one who did not have a hard time at first with any of the popular brands. Such is life. Serge Sretschinsky -this too shall pass