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On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:42:05 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> > Well, you know, that's what manpages do. They give you a terse
>> > reference to the bare essentials of what a tool does. That doesn't
>> > seem like much of an "assumption" to me.
>
>> I learned to script in bash using the manpage. That's not exactly a
>> terse one - again, hard to generalise about this kind of thing.
>
> Ever checked zsh's manpage(s)? It's actually divided into 16 man
> pages,
> each dealing with a subset of the features, and most of them aren't
> exactly short (for example the manpage for 'zshexpn' is over 1900 lines
> long).
I haven't looked at it myself, but it doesn't surprise me that there are
manpages that have a lot of documentation in them.
Jim
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