On Saturday 29 December 2007 00:34, Nick Holland wrote:

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>And...just start at chapter 1 and start reading. :)  Odds are, you

>didn't catch it all the first time, even things that didn't change

>will mean something to you now when it didn't the last time you

>looked.

Exactly. About once a year i go back and reread the entire FAQ. Each

time i learn something new and refresh my memory on things i knew but

haven't used recently.
>(I have had people say to me, "Hey, you are just looking at the

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>docs, I thought you knew this?"  "I WROTE the docs.  Doesn't mean

>I remember anything more than 'where to look'".)

I think knowing how to find information is more useful than having

everything memorized without ever needing to look it up. Between work

and family and friends i'm expected to varying degrees to support

OpenBSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and even Windows . I can't

remember how to do everything on all those systems. But i can remember

how to look up information quickly.
Thanks for all your hard work on the documentation. It is one of the

things that make OpenBSD much easier to work with than other systems.

For most of my questions i don't even bother using a search engine; i

just go to the FAQ and more-often-than-not find the answer i wanted.
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