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To: Senator Bedfellow
The author was writing from the perspective of an enterprise-class server administrator, so all of the daemons on his Mac server may have man pages.

I have my machine configured differently - with XCode and the undocumented fbobserver. The user experience for software developers is atypical, and weird stuff like fbobserver just goes with the territory.

And any proposition predicated on the (implied) premise that people who program for Macs are somehow nobler and better people, who always, always, always do the right thing and never take shortcuts, and never cut corners and never rush deadlines, and never omit man pages, as opposed to those slackers who program for other platforms...well, that's pretty much too goofy for words.

We do try to be noble. Thanks for pointing out a couple of exceptions to the rules.

45 posted on 08/25/2006 10:59:25 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
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To: HAL9000
Everybody tries to be noble. Sometimes the real world has other ideas, though ;)
46 posted on 08/25/2006 11:20:18 PM PDT by Senator Bedfellow (If you're not sure, it was probably sarcasm.)
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