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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!jhgrud!eskimo!ape
- From: ape@eskimo.com (Mark Newland)
- Subject: Re: man pages?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.072147.25854@eskimo.com>
- Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
- References: <C0ACIs.3DM@zero.com> <6249@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:21:47 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- jdc@kendrick.cse.nau.edu (John Campbell) writes:
-
- >From article <C0ACIs.3DM@zero.com>, by steve@zero.com (Steve Urich):
-
- >: Like I said if you BOUGHT the foundation set you SHOULD have manuals
- >: as in books manuals :-). Who care about online manuals, they are
- >: just space waisters. Consentrate on getting the book manuals. They
- >: are well worth it.
-
- >This is just one opinion. I much prefer the convienence of man pages
- >for searching for text strings or quickly looking up the arguments to
- >a library call as I'm coding. If your man program can use compressed
- >man pages, then the amount of space is not too outrages. Besides, it's
- >our disk so we should be able to choose what we "waist" on it.
-
- I agree. Plus, even thu I SHOULD have gotten the book manuals, I DIDN'T.
- All I got was these lousy manuals telling me how to use the ua software and
- such. BIG DEAL!! There is still lots of programs scattered around my
- system that I have no idea what they do. I have several books on UNIX, and
- such but not EVERYTHING is listed in there. I don't even have the INFERIOR
- man pages for them :)
-