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- From: zklf0b@gs144.uucp (Fergason)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.174708.12887@hou.amoco.com>
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- References: <BxKtvw.J7v@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Nov12.224908.25332@hou.amoco.com> <Bxw1Lp.CwH@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:47:08 GMT
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- In article <Bxw1Lp.CwH@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
- >>and will probably miss the end:
- >>
- >>I disagree. Not having used too many OS's, I can only recall 2
- >>that the help command did something. Vax VMS, and Microsoft Dos 5.
- >>I take that back, i just thought of Wylbur/MVSX, and VM/CMS. I believe
- >>help does something on those systems.
- >
- >Add in OS/2 and (I believe) AmigaDOS. Plus many, many, many, command
- >line oriented programs that are not operating systems like symbolic
- >math packages and graphing packages. Plus every text mode adventure
- >game.
-
- I believe the subject was operating systems. There are lots of programs
- that help is a command.
-
- >>
- >>Why should help do something at the command prompt? I would much, much
- >>rather have the hardcopy manual in my hand. While online help might
- >>be nice, I really just do not see its absence as an inherent flaw.
- >
- >You think the average university should issue everyone textual manuals?
- >Especially for the huge mass of files that come with Unix???
- >And what about when those files change?
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-
- no, the university should not issue manuals. I studied and worked at a
- university for the past 10 years, so i feel I have a grasp on how that
- situation works. the manuals were available, which is all I need. I
- could get the manual for anything, because there was one copy at the
- help desks sprinkled around the campus. If i buy software, i expect to
- get manuals.
-
- i consider manuals and online help to be two different things.
-
- Kelly
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