Horton

Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Theo Kramer <theo@flame.co.za>, "pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1999-09-21T01:55:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> > But newbies can't do shortcuts.  I think we need to keep it.
> 
> Newbies can't read man pages to type 'CREATE USER <userid>' or 'CREATE
> DATABASE <database>'?
> 
> We're not asking anyone to learn rocket science here...we leave that to
> Thomas :)

But we have to get the newbie started before they are going to dive in
and learn manuals.

I don't read the manuals until I decide I want to use some new piece of
software.  I am reading the LyX manuals now only after using it for a
few weeks and deciding I want to move from troff to lyx.

Because it is part of getting started, it has to be easy.

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