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| From | Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion |
| Date | 2012-08-16 20:32 -0400 |
| Organization | Ain’t No Organization Here! |
| Message-ID | <k0k3f5$c4e$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <1kox4dx.1xbzczygkpp8oN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <k0hpt4$fkn$1@dont-email.me> <1koxfj4.119vm2d1m1ej03N%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <1kowtk2.t2wy0jbydayeN%dcohenspam@talktalk.net> <fmoore-5A4CBA.15451316082012@news.eternal-september.org> |
On 08-16-2012 15:45, Fred Moore wrote: > In article <1kowtk2.t2wy0jbydayeN%dcohenspam@talktalk.net>, > dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) wrote: > >> Thanks to you, Wes, and others for explaining things to me very clearly. >> If only the manual pages had given proper examples of this. > > As someone who is self-taught in UNIX (HaHa, HoHo, & HeeHee), the man > pages have always seemed to be perfunctory, pro forma boilerplate, > deliberately minimalist so that the developers can claim they had > provided help, but not cost them much effort, and yet allow them to look > down their noses at the neophytes who are quite rightly confused by the > lack of real instruction. It's better now, but when OS X first came along, Apple included the BSD man pages without editing in the changes they had made. -- Wes Groleau Words of the Wild Wes http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW
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caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-15 20:49 +0100
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-15 20:53 +0000
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-15 22:57 +0100
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-08-15 19:38 -0400
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> - 2012-08-15 20:01 -0400
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-08-16 13:35 +1200
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-08-15 22:05 -0400
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-15 23:37 -0400
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-08-16 16:02 +1200
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-16 10:26 +0100
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-08-16 15:45 -0400
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-08-16 19:09 -0400
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-16 20:32 -0400
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-17 07:29 +0100
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-08-17 13:23 -0400
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-17 22:52 +0100
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-08-17 23:26 +0100
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-17 22:36 +0000
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-08-17 23:48 +0100
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-18 06:24 +0000
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-17 20:42 -0400
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2012-08-17 11:12 +0200
Re: caffeinate and Mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-16 03:41 +0000
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