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a technical communication document intended to give assistance to people using a particular system

A user guide or user's guide, also commonly known as a manual, is a technical communication document intended to give assistance to people using a particular system.

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How do I check if a man page exists?

I'm trying to write a script to convert man pages to PDF files. The script I have right now is: #! /usr/bin/env bash [[ $# -ne 1 ]] && { echo "Usage: $(basename $0) [command]" ; exit 1 ; } man -t ${1} | ps2pdf14 - > "${1}_man.pdf" The problem is…
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How does TFS merge work?

We have a couple of developers who are in favor of the manual merge in TFS 2010, it's when you open two visual studios, one with the source branch and another one with the target branch and you manually copy&paste your changes. They do it this way…
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Any Intel 8048 assembly resources out there?

Are there any out there? I'm looking at developing something for a retro console, and can't seem to find any resources. I have found an assembler and disassembler package, asm48, however. I've seen listings for a book called the "Intel MCS-48…
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Where does the Git documentation mention that "git-foo" on $PATH can be called as "git foo"?

Git has this feature, where you can place any executable named git-foo on $PATH and then call it as git foo , like a built-in subcommand (or is it more of a side-effect of how Git implemented subcommands in the early days?). I learned this…
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Is there a typo/bug in the documentation of the loop instruction?

In the following pseudo code description of the Intel loop instruction, when the operand size is 16, this description appears to omit use of the DEST branch-target operand in the taken case: IF BranchCond = 1 THEN IF OperandSize = 32 …
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Using Data Annotations Validation Manually and Object Graphs

Let's assume that I have two simple classes: public class CustomerDetails { [Required] public string Address { get; set; } } public class Customer { public Customer() { Details = new CustomerDetails(); } …
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How do you document multiple functions in a single man (.Rd) file, in package source?

For example, I have a file foo.R with the contents: #FILE: foo.R foo <- function() "foo" bar <- function() "bar" This forms the R code for my package. I want to document both foo and bar in a single .Rd file: when the user enters help(foo) or…
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Is there any way to find info about C keywords from linux command line?

Does linux provide any tools to provide the information like man which will give me the details about the c keywords? For. e.g. man auto
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cakePHP 1.2/1.3 Manual in CHM format

Can anyone provide me some useful links to download CakePHP 1.2/1.3 Manual including API version in CHM format, which runs locally without any internet usage? It would be helpful for me!
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Documenting a Access Application for Developers

I need to document a MS-Access application that was created, developed and maintained completely by a power-user over 10 years. This is an interesting situation because what they want is a manual so that a future developer can come in without…
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Mercurial: How to merge with manual control over changes & files?

Note: The scenario I describe here is not answered in Stack Overflow: Completely manual Mercurial merge. I will explain my query with an example. Assume I start off a Mercurial repository to design a car: C:\Car$ dir Car.cpp Car.h I work on the…
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Manually sort a list of 10 integers in python

I'm fairly new to programming; I've only been studying Python for a few weeks. I've been given an exercise recently that asks me to generate a list of integers, and then manually sort the numbers from lowest to highest in a separate list. import…
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Multi Language Software Documentation / Manual

we have an rather extensive set of Documentation for our software currently written in german. Now we want to translate this documentation into english for our foreign customers. For this we will use an external translation service. But we want to…
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$+ meaning in makefile

What does $+ in a GNU makefile mean? Also, please give me some good lookup manual for writing makefiles.
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How assignments can start with an open parenthesis in Lua?

While reading the Lua manual I came upon this part: Both function calls and assignments can start with an open parenthesis. This possibility leads to an ambiguity in Lua's grammar. Consider the following fragment: a = b + c (print or…
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