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Online manuals - what's the point? 2016-10-22 20:21:34 Post No. 57193438
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Online manuals - what's the point? Anonymous 2016-10-22 20:21:34 Post No. 57193438 [Report]

Considering that a large majority have people have more storage than they'll even come close to using, and considering the size of such a thing, why aren't manuals automatically installed with the programs? This includes OSs as well.

Even if you were to fill the manual with images you'd only count a few MB, and even if the manuals for something like Windows are many hundreds of MB, that would still be a better usage of space than many of the things in the multi-GB monster that is Windows 10.

So why is it that if you hit F1 to get help it takes you to a website?

And yes, I am aware of man-pages. But those are largely the exception these days.

Anonymous 2016-10-22 20:24:09 Post No.57193481
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Anonymous 2016-10-22 20:24:09 Post No.57193481 [Report]

>>57193438

So people can't own/distribute outdated versions of the manual?

Anonymous 2016-10-22 20:26:25 Post No.57193510
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Anonymous 2016-10-22 20:26:25 Post No.57193510 [Report]

>>57193481
Surely having the manual be tied to the version you have would make more sense. Besides, all it takes is a little version number header.

Anonymous 2016-10-22 20:38:17 Post No.57193645
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Anonymous 2016-10-22 20:38:17 Post No.57193645 [Report]

>>57193438
I agree.

Anonymous 2016-10-22 20:55:44 Post No.57193861
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Anonymous 2016-10-22 20:55:44 Post No.57193861 [Report]

because you can't use analytics scripts with a pdf.

oh hey people are googling 'why is my software full of pictures of some gross ugly guy's dick' before landing on your FAQ page. well that's interesting

Anonymous 2016-10-22 20:59:50 Post No.57193920
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Anonymous 2016-10-22 20:59:50 Post No.57193920 [Report]

>>57193438
Nobody uses manuals anymore, they use Google

Anonymous 2016-10-22 21:02:00 Post No.57193948
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Anonymous 2016-10-22 21:02:00 Post No.57193948 [Report]

>>57193438
But we already have those, they're called man pages. The syntax on any GNU/Linux, BSD, or general UNIX-System would be:
man command
There's also the info command, which does the same thing. Oh, and can't ignore 'help'.

What's truly infuriating is when you are directed to another manual within a man page.

Anonymous 2016-10-22 21:05:01 Post No.57193984
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>>57193438
>he uses windows

Anonymous 2016-10-22 21:07:29 Post No.57194023
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>>57193438
Companies are Jews and assume if you have a digital manual nothing is stopping you from pirating all the software. Scientific companies do this with all their proprietary shit and it's annoying as fuck. Rather than email you a PDF they will ship you a physical manual that you obviously have to pay for. What are you gonna do, buy this machine from a rival? We're the only ones that make it and have a contact with your department haha kek kek fuck you

Online manuals - what's the point?

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