[plug] Cron scheduling

[Christian]

John Summerfield wrote:

> There are problems with Linux (and Unix in general) documentation;
>         There's no good summary of what commands exist

apropos 1

(Or whatever section(s) is/are relevant to what you're looking for).

>         "man" is almost nobody's guess when "help" is needed.

A bit like "Start" not being a person's first guess when they want to
stop - once learned it's not hard to see the logic.

>         It's often difficult to comprehend

It just takes time.  It's really not that hard if you put a little
effort in.

>         You often need to know th software's source to find the docs - FSF
> software hardley ever hass a current man "page" and sometimes has none at
> all. For these programs, you need "info"

GNU software doesn't always have up to date manual pages - that's their
clearly stated policy for their OS.  It's not that dissimilar from
Windows programs not having manual pages.

>         info is not obvious either

Seriously - it's not really that hard.

>         info is the worst hypertext viewing program I've seen, except for older
> versions.
> Fortunately KDE and (better) GNOME address many of these problems with a
> single browser that handles all three (adding HTML) formats.

As you say, there are other options which do the job fine - it's really
not as terrible as you make out.

Regards,

Christian.

-- 
People shouldn't think that it's better to have loved and lost than
never loved at all.  It's not, it's better to have loved and won.
All the other options really suck.    --Dan Redican