Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MMDF+MULTI+2.11; site icdoc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!lll-crg!seismo!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!iwm From: iwm@icdoc.UUCP (Ian Moor) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group Subject: Re: net.doc Message-ID: <264@ivax.icdoc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 16:14:24 EST Article-I.D.: ivax.264 Posted: Fri Nov 15 16:14:24 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 18-Nov-85 07:21:51 EST References: <96@tekadg.UUCP> <2850@pesnta.UUCP> <354@ihdev.UUCP> Reply-To: iwm@icdoc.UUCP (Ian Moor) Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Lines: 31 Xref: watmath net.followup:5450 net.news.group:4582 Xpath: icdoc ivax In article <854@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes: >People are suggesting that we have a net.doc for every >UNIX neophyte to be able to use to ask questions to the net. >Most questions you have can be answered by someone relatively >close to you, and should not be sent around the world or even >the continent. Netnews is a scarce resource, and if people >What I do when I have a simple question is one of the following, >in progression: > - ask a local person who's likely to know the answer I have shared offices at different times with two people in this position and I began to wonder how they got any work done, there was a stream of people all day long: "when I type send foo!baa it says event not found ..." I have got to know VMS more than most people round here and I am able to tell people with questions to type HELP or point to the manuals which have examples of each command. I find unix has two problems working out what command to use, and how to do anthing not explained explicitly in the man page. net.docs could have as a starter the notes written for students starting to use unix. -- Ian W Moor UUCP: seismo!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!iwm ARPA: iwm%icdoc@ucl Department of Computing Whereat a great and far-off voice was heard, saying, Imperial College. Poop-poop-poopy, and it was even so; and the days 180 Queensgate of Poopy Panda were long in the land. London SW7 Uk.