Re: gEDA-user: 7400, gschem and gsch2pcb

[David Logan <djlogan2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

But (a) something is better than nothing, and (b) A help file 
essentially can be tied to a release, with help file updates installed 
with new release updates.

One of my biggest problems with this software so far has been my 
difficulty in finding "the complete" set of information, from "this is 
how you spell P-C-B" to references.

My standard for most software is to try "man software", then "info 
software", then look in /usr/share/doc and/or /usr/src/product-1.0  
(since I install most everything from source.)

If none of those work, I start hunting on the internet. And I haven't 
found any place on the internet that contains the sum total of the 
documentation for the gEDA product suite. I'm not saying it doesn't 
exist necessarily, just that I haven't found it. All I have been able to 
find is piecemeal items that sometimes helps me along, sometimes not.

David Logan

kmk wrote:

> David Logan wrote:
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> > How about installing it as a local help file?
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> I wouldn't do that. After all, it is a wiki that is suppose to be edited
> and updated frequently. If there were copies in the distribution,
> referring to the wiki would get ambiguous.
>
> "pcb --help" might be expanded to include hints to the sources of
> information available online (manual, bug tracking system, wiki).
>
> Just my 2¢,
>
> ---<(kaimartin)>---
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