Re: Partition size

["SN_Diamond" <Norman.Diamond@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
>
> Now, the more pressing issue. Are you familiar with the
> RTFM program? It is a great tool for learning how to use
> Linux. Here is all you have to do:
>
> ln -s /usr/bin/man /usr/bin/rtfm

No, you have to do a lot more than that.

When an RTFM page says "This page is no longer maintained; please use the
info pages instead", you have to find two ways to fail with the info
command.  One way is to use Gnome's help system, which works OK if your
environment is US English, but which craps out after the first or second
button press if your environment is Japanese.  The other way is to discover
that the "info" command operates in a text window almost like the RTFM
command.  But if you use the second way, then you have to figure out that
even though it doesn't say "This page is no longer maintained" the fact
still is that it isn't maintained.

When an RFTM page says "This page is about 10 years out of date", you have
to figure out how long ago that statement was written, add that number of
years to 10, and see how old it really is.  Since there's no "info" page for
this kind of command, there's no next step.

When an RTFM page doesn't say anything like that, you still have to observe
that the information differs from what you get by running the original
command with the "--help" option.

Next you have to observe that, if the command uses a configuration file and
the configuration file has comments in it, some comments in the
configuration file differ from the default settings visible on non-comment
lines, other comments are obsolete, and some comments talk about wildly
different options from the options that are set on non-comment lines that
are next to the options.  Next, you have to observe that if you set things
the way the comments say, or put options on the command line the way the
comments say to adjust the command line, then the command croaks.

Finally you have to whip out the source.

Glover-san, the RTFM command is F'ed.  There's no use for it.  RTFS is the
only solution.