Depends on how lazy you are. Lazy people read the man page first, hackerly types experiment, and lazy hackers spend their time on IRC anyway so it's not much more effort to go on and ask.

;)

Jack Johnson wrote:

On 3/30/06, Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:27:32PM +0100, rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
  (especially with an additional constraint that nobody
  reads man pages) ?


Aren't man pages are what you read in between experimentation and
asking for help on IRC?

;)

-Jack