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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:01:12AM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:55:28AM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> > > perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf ? fuck that. it's not how I invoke =
it.
> > > where's my "man 5 spamassassin" ?
> >=20
> > No idea. Why would it be in section 5? It's a command after all.
> >=20
> > $ man 5 spamassassin > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?
> > 16
> > $ man 1 spamassassin > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?
> > 0
> > $ which spamassassin
> > /opt/perl/bin/spamassassin
>=20
> I'm specifically referring to the configuration file
> (Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf), hence section 5.
Well, if I want to find the manual page of 'Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf', I
would tell man that I want 'Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf', and not 'spamassassi=
n'.
$ man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?
0
It's not installed in section 5 though - it's in section 3. But I seldomly
use the section numbers.
> I invariably end up checking the spamassassin man page to remind myself
> what the magic perldoc variable (Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf) is.
The only time I use perldoc is if I want the -f functionality. For complete
manual pages, 'man' will do fine. 'perldoc' is mainly there for Windows
weenies, who aren't used to manual pages.=20
Abigail
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