[plug] Man pages

[navarre at omen.com.au]

I find the man pages good for the reasons of speed, will run on 
anything and are searchable. I am however put off by the fact that 
there are no examples of how to use the command/ function in the 
man page. Take date for example. what sort of black magic does it 
take to use date to write the string HH:MM:SS dd/mm/yyyy so it 
can be included in a log file. I have found the answer after about a 
hour of trying different constructs of the command line. 
The date --help was more usefull than man. But for setting the time 
the man page had more info.

The morrel of the story is to consult all and every source of 
information available including email, irc, man, help, a good book 
and the Howto pages. Generally the answer can be found in one or 
more of these places.

Regards Navarre