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> I remember being a kid looking at DOS and wondering “what do I even do?” The DOS we had came with a few-hundred page manual. The same for any major programs
by Exoristos 3y ago
> I remember being a kid looking at DOS and wondering “what do I even do?”
The DOS we had came with a few-hundred page manual. The same for any major programs that ran on it. These must have been exhaustive, as I don't remember being stuck at any point, honestly.
- atoav 3y agoJup. But where in the terminal does it tell you that (A) there are man pages and (B) how to look at them? The answer is: It doesn't tell you anything. So either you grew up in a time where computers with terminals were new and interesting enough for you to try, or you were a teenager that was bored enough to try, or you had somebody show/tell you. But what it does not do is explain itself.