Re: ssh and sftp on the i

Hi Jack,

How numerous are the differences between what a Linux box man page shows for a command and what the commands in the unix shell used by PASE actually use?  Are "most" the same?  Or would I always run into some difference even in common commands?

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On 4/16/2019 9:17 AM, Jack Woehr wrote:

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 9:00 AM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jack:

With all due respect, and you earned some,

Well, thank you sir!

the MAN pages are on the edge of

the worst documentation ever created.

"Worst" is a qualitative assessment that begs definition, but in any case I
disagree.

"Nerdiest", perhaps.

The man regimen was designed:

- with the assumption the reader understood basic unix command sytanx,
(dash-switches, arguments, etc.)
- with the assumption the reader understood the basic execution model
(redirection and pipe stages).
- to be easy to create documentation on the fly
- to be easy to index the created documentation
- to be lightweight to present to the user

In my view, the *worst* advice one can give to the PASE newbie is to blow
off 50 years (this year) of Unix experience as arcana and consign them to
remain under the tutelage of experts.

PASE, as I said, is *not* a bolt-on. *It's the highway to the future of IBM
i.*

Unix was designed to empower the individual. Be that empowered individual.
Embrace PASE and learn it, the *easiest* way being via interaction with the
reference platform, Linux. More pointers on this at COMMON.

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