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- From: bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske)
- Subject: Re: Audio Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.150050.10809@news.iastate.edu>
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- Reply-To: bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske)
- Organization: EAI, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Jul25.163827.22304@news.iastate.edu> <nobregg@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Jul26.220045.8227@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul26.222526.9166@news.iastate.edu> <nq81smc@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:00:50 GMT
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- In article <nq81smc@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <1992Jul26.222526.9166@news.iastate.edu> bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske) writes:
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- [stuff deleted]
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- >For the man pages there is apropos, which does a pretty good job
- >(after you run /usr/lib/makewhatis). For the other manuals, I've
- >been yelling about *useful* indexs for a while. The pubs folks have
- >the message, and I think things are (slowly) improving as manuals
- >are redone. That still doesn't help if you don't know what manual
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >to look at though. The online (CD based, although it could be copied
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- My very point.
-
- >to a hard disk) documention product that is being worked on should
- >help for this though (and no, it emphaticaly does *not* replace the
- >hard copy manuals, although some of us had to fight for that).
-
- I know about whatis/apropos and about the upcomming cd-rom product,
- I'm just saying that one cumulative index (this can be found in that
- manual on those pages) for hard-bound manuals would be, well, nice.
-
-
- C.P.S.:
- And thanks to Vernon who reminded me that I use RRN, Retarded Read News.
- It likes to autoscale distribution and I forget to change this most of
- the time. I'm going to fix this right now.
-
-
- Okay, I'm done with this thread, anyone else who wishes may rave on.
-
-
- Thanks.
-
- Bryan.
-
-
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- Bryan Manske (515) 296-9908 .
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- #include <standard_disclaimer.h> . Dave S.
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