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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 to use '-prune' option of 'find' in sh?

I don't quite understand the example given from the man find, can anyone give me some examples and explanations? Can I combine regular expression in it? The more detailed question is like this: Write a shell script, changeall, which has an…
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Git - how to force merge conflict and manual merge on selected file

We maintain web application which has common master branch and many parallel branches, one for each installation, each have few specific changes. Source code is managed in git and it is terrific tool when we need transfer features and bugfixes from…
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ANSI SQL Manual

Can anyone recommend a good ANSI SQL reference manual? I don't necessary mean a tutorial but a proper reference document to lookup when you need either a basic or more in-depth explanation or example. Currently I am using W3Schools SQL Tutorial and…
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Sources on S4 objects, methods and programming in R

As I'm often confronted with situations where S4 programming is needed to keep an overview, I've collected quite some sources on S4 objects, methods and programming. I've listed them here as a reference. Please add your own sources as well. On the…
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Making an R package PDF manual using devtools

I am making an R package using devtools and roxygen2. I can get a PDF manual using R CMD but I am really curious as to whether this can be done using devtools. devtools' build(), check(), install() all don't make a PDF manual. Is this tied to making…
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Haskell Documentation on Terminal

Is it possible to get Haskell Documentation from Terminal or from ghci? In Ruby I usually do ri thefunc In Perl I usually do perldoc -f thefunc Or I can get interactive help in Python. How to do this kind of thing in Haskell? For example, if I…
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Adding rows into Cursor manually

I have an array of phone numbers and I want to get the corresponding contact names from the contacts database. In the array of phone numbers, I also have some numbers that are not saved before to the contact database. For example; 3333333 ->…
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Is there a CakePHP offline manual

There used to be, but there don't seem to be any direct links. A little digging around revealed some answers which I thought it would be useful to share. These are links to the manual in one page - useful for offline use or creating a PDF using…
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Eclipse CDT: How to clear Problems window without invoking Clean Project or Build Project?

Is there a way to clear the Problems window (and any related source code error/warning annotations) without invoking "Build All/Project/..." or "Clean project" (or deleting the project and then re-creating/re-importing it)?
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Java : "xx".equals(variable) better than variable.equals("xx") , TRUE?

I'm reviewing a manual of best practices and recommendation coding java I think is doubtful. Recomendation: String variable; "xx".equals(variable) // OK variable.equals("xx") //Not recomended Because prevents appearance of NullPointerException…
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Manual Cygwin Installation without using Setup.exe

I am having issues with finding all of the necessary files to actually install Cygwin correctly when not using the premade setup utility. The reason behind this is the fact that my company computer blocks the usage of the .exe, and won't give me…
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Concise SSE and MMX instruction reference with latencies and throughput

I am trying to optimize some arithmetic by using the MMX and SSE instruction sets with inline assembly. However, I have been unable to find good references for the timings and usages of these enhanced instruction sets. Could you please help me find…
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Linux user-space ELF loader

I need to do a rather unusual thing: manually execute an elf executable. I.e. load all sections into right places, query main() and call it (and cleanup then). Executable will be statically linked, so there will be no need to link libraries. I also…
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c++0x standard library reference manual

I've been coding in C++ for years and recently heard that there's a new revision of the C++ standard coming along. I've studied the standard drafts and found out that there's a lot of new stuff that will make my programming easier. So I want to get…
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Pandas - create dataframe manually and insert values

Here is my code: import pandas as pd df = pd.DataFrame(columns = ["A", "B"]) df.iloc[0]['A'] = 5 Here is output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "K:/Dop/Pentas/Simpletest/Temp.py", line 38, in df.iloc[0]['A'] = 5 File…
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