Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/06/13/06:15:29
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Zargon wrote:
> Arguably, it reflects about the documentation quality, which is
> arguably a factor in user friendliness.
Arguably, many people nowadays are simply not educated to read the
docs.
> There's too
> much to read it all, and there's no decent help browser with search
> functionality, and a lot of it is scattered all over the place both on
> the net and on a typical installation's directory tree. :-)
If this is based on your own experience, please elaborate. (If it's
pure hearsay, please don't ;-)
If the docs is relevant and tells you non-trivial things, there ain't
no such thing as ``too much to read'', at least I haven't yet seen
such a beast. Usage information and tips are *always* at premium: the
current forum is one _very_ good example of this, since the amount of
good-quality docs which comes with DJGPP is quite large, and yet many
questions posted to this group still need a guru to answer them.
The right Way of dealing with ``too much docs'' is to use it as a
reference, not as a manual. In an Info reader, that means using the
`i' command (index-search) as your primary means of finding relevant
information, as opposed to browsing the manual as a linear document.
As for ``decent help browser'', please try at least some of the
suggestions in section 5.1 of the DJGPP FAQ, before you make up your
mind about that.
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