Comments on: More Man Page Goodness

By: Abuddy

Abuddy — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:18:07 +0000

yes.
there needs to be more examples in man pages.
I think.

By: AmyRose

AmyRose — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:24:36 +0000

Oh, never mind… you said sfdisk, not fdisk.

By the way, have you ever seen the “I apologize for being so annoying” funny error that sometimes happens when you’re installing kernels on Debian and Ubuntu systems?

By: AmyRose

AmyRose — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:22:10 +0000

Wow, that’s funny. However, I don’t see it in the fdisk manpage on my Hardy system. Is it on another one?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:48:02 +0000

@anonymous- Different styles of humor apparently. However, Ubuntu DOES install man pages by default. What they don’t install is the developer man pages. So, where’s the black box?

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:47:07 +0000

One of the funniest manpages I’ve ever read is wipe(1)
It starts normally, but starts getting really paranoid quite soon

http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/1/wipe/

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:32:11 +0000

I do not find that even remotely funny.

If something, Linux distributions should really start to learn from documentation in BSDs.

Man-pages in Linux are terrible even in the case of something like libc. But oh yes, Ubuntu does not even install man-pages by default, so why bother.

Click and run. No need to read anymore. Welcome black box. Sad future for otherwise decent system.

By: jacques

jacques — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:57:22 +0000

…and less pages should be like the mount man page. If there is a god of obscure man pages, he was probably the author of that particular one. I can’t believe people find it useful to write pages in something so far remote from good English.. For one thing, there needs to be more examples in man pages,.

By: Dennis K.

Dennis K. — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:25:53 +0000

apt-get install funny-manpages asr-manpages

By: Andreas Wenning

Andreas Wenning — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:14:11 +0000

That man-page has some goodies in it. Look at this:
-I file
After destroying your filesystems with an unfortunate sfdisk command, you would have been able to restore the old situation if only you had preserved it using the -O flag.