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Database Forum / Ingres Topics / December 2007[Info-Ingres] [IJ] 'man ingres'
What's wrong with this picture? mwinston@gwenbors:~> man postgres Reformatting postgres(1), please wait... mwinston@gwenbors:~> man ingres *No manual entry for ingres* mwinston@gwenbors:~>  SignatureMark R. Winston www.datavailable.com > What's wrong with this picture? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > *No manual entry for ingres* > mwinston@gwenbors:~> I guess having man pages would tick some kind of box. If someone wanted to create some man pages I wouldn't actually object to it, but that's about as enthusiastic as I can get at the moment. Didn't Ingres have man pages once? Am I mis-remembering? (I have a set of man pages for Berkeley INGRES here; but I don't think that's what I'm remembering.) Roy It is easy enough to create a basic man page, tell people how to add them (see examples in the links below), and make it available to others to enhance. This is simple enough that we (Ingres) could put something like this together and place it on the community website for others to use. I'll take this on as a task. http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November2003/article309.shtml http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8925/ur0312i/ It's always good to point out a deficiency or opportunity for improvement, but it's even better to take it to the next step and help solve the problem. Chip I would love to see a man page for ingres. Please post the link when it's made. Thanks! >I would love to see a man page for ingres. Please post the link when > it's made. Thanks! I'm perfectly used to being wrong, so I assure you I am genuinely interested to know why man pages could still be preferable to PDFs. (Usually it's me who is retrograde and reactionary, so this is a bit weird for me.) Roy Hi everyone, me again, I just came across this message in the iircp.log. !Wed Dec 12 10:36:17 2007 Possible reinit of sem 'DI aaaabbac.t00' (6000000001BB1238) !Wed Dec 12 10:36:17 2007 Possible reinit of sem 'DI aaaaaaph.t00' (6000000001BB1938) !Wed Dec 12 10:36:17 2007 Possible reinit of sem 'DI aaaaadcp.t00' (6000000001BB4338) !Wed Dec 12 10:36:17 2007 Possible reinit of sem 'DI aaaaadcp.t00' (6000000001BB4338) !Wed Dec 12 10:36:17 2007 Possible reinit of sem 'DI aaaaadcp.t02' (6000000001BB4A38) !Wed Dec 12 10:36:17 2007 Possible reinit of sem 'DI aaaaaapi.t02' (6000000001EDA1B8) !Wed Dec 12 10:36:17 2007 Possible reinit of sem 'DI aaaaaapb.t00' (6000000001EE6238) !Wed Dec 12 10:36:17 2007 Possible reinit of sem 'DI aaaaaode.t01' (6000000001BB0EB8) I've never seen this before and there's a long list of them. Anything to worry about ? Andre
Roy, Maybe we aren't all talking about the same thing. I would *really* like to see man pages for all the operating system commands. For instance, all the flags for ckpdb, verifydb, createdb, etc. I don't need a comprehensive manual for each, that is covered by the PDF. What I mean is, I don't want the operation of the ckpdb command described in the man pages. Just a brief listing of the command line flags and their meanings, plus a URL that points to the online PDF. ;-) But a man page for Ingres that looks like the Perl man page (listing all the other man pages). Try "perl man" to see what I mean. You certainly don't want to use those man pages to learn Perl, but they are so handy when your brain's internal cache experiences a cache miss. Cheers, Mikey Roy Hann wrote: "Sally Holl" <sally.lynn@gmail.com> wrote in message news:03e61e18-a775-4d03-a6da-cecbdb9250c7@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com... Roy, There are many times when a quick reference is preferred over a full set of documentation. For example, when you are new to a product or providing support in the middle of the night and just want make a quick check "just to be sure," or when you're in the middle of a recovery effort (especially in a disaster recovery exercise) and may not have easy or full access to other support materials when you need them. Some die hards won't bother checking other sources if they can't find it in man (I've seen quite a few people like this - usually Sys Admins). Anyway, there is value to having the information available. Marty sent me an email saying that he was working on this as well. I provided my input and am letting him take the lead, providing assistance as needed. I would guess that he will provide an update in the near future. Happy Holidays. Chip > I'm perfectly used to being wrong, so I assure you I am genuinely interested > to know why man pages could still be preferable to PDFs. (Usually it's me > who is retrograde and reactionary, so this is a bit weird for me.) > > Roy |
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