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Comment by bitwize

8 years ago

As others have mentioned, the BSD man pages are the gold standard.

Man pages should not be "simplified". They should be easy to read, but comprehensive. How comprehensive? I literally learned NetBSD kernel programming by reading man pages. The same with learning how to write X programs two decades ago.

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