From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 13:46:35 PST
Such is the mysterious world of the Unix Guru. A loner
crowd where funnily enough, they all seem to resemble
one another...
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
subdomain)
--- Robert Benschop <rbenschop_at_euronet.nl> wrote:
> on 28-01-2003 6:44, Fisher, Patrick at
> patrick.m.fisher_at_wamu.net wrote:
>
> >>> Can you tell me how you run this, is it a
> command-line app?
> >> Yep, it's command line. The command:
> >> man curl
> > It is extremely annoying when a person familiar
> with Unix gives a terse
> > (and unusable) response as follows (below). It
> took me quite awhile,
> > many years ago, to figure out how to use Unix
> because every Unix person
> > told me to use the man pages. Which are pretty
> unhelpful.
>
> Ironically Patrick's comment made go into Terminal,
> past 'man curl' and
> press return, and lo and behold, a full explanation.
>
> Guess Patrick was right, Unix is a strange world...
>
>
> Robert Benschop
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