[cups.general] [Fwd: [Printing-user-general] Why has nothing changed?]

Ambrose Li ambrose.li at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 14:52:41 PDT 2006


Hi,

On 31/07/06, Bernd Krumböck <krumboeck at universalnet.at> wrote:
> What I mean is:
> If you want to know the most significant characteristics from lpadmin, then
> you should look into the man page. But if you want to know how to create
> and manage a printer queue, then you should read a good documentation (with
> examples, graphics, ... and whatever you need to understand).
>
> Documentations and manuals have different jobs, so they can't replace each
> other.  ;)

But man pages *are* documentation. :)

Of course not all documentation are man pages, but all man pages are,
by their nature, documentation. They might look primitive (lack
graphics, for example), or they might have fallen out of favour, but
they still are documentation, and at some point in time (at least)
they had been the only form of user documentation available on Unix
systems.

Certainly, learning how to create and manage a printer queue is
something perfectly suitable for placing into man pages. I used to
expect such things in man pages; but of course, time have changed now
and it is now not even always realistic to find command line usages in
man pages these days.

-- 
cheers,
-ambrose





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