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- From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Stabilizing Linux
- Message-ID: <3308@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 14:33:47 GMT
- References: <1992Aug10.153856.27103@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug11.202205.246@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca> <1992Aug12.124749.17219@engr.uark.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug12.124749.17219@engr.uark.edu> tep@engr.uark.edu writes:
- >dje@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca (Doug Evans) writes:
- >
- >>davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- >>For example, I can buy a whole suite of manuals on SVR4/386 from Prentice Hall
- >>for about $300. Yes yes, that's pretty steep, but what are the realistic
- >>alternatives?
- >>
- >>Suppose Linux was heading to where SVR4/386 already is: most of our manuals
- >>would already be written for us. And we would rarely have to cope with Linux
- >
- >Plagiarism.
-
- No, you miss the point. I think that the idea was that we could simply
- tell people to go down to their local technical bookstore, and tell them to buy
- the SVR4/386 manual set. The users manual might be OK, but we need to remember
- that we are using mostly GNU replacements, and this means that there are
- additional switches and features which would not be in the SVR4 manuals.
- The system administrators manual for SVR4 is useless as far as linux is
- concerned.
-
- There is a linux manpage project that someone is coordinating. I do
- not know the status of it, but perhaps someone involved would care to fill us
- in on the status. I would be interested in seeing a list of which utilities
- they have man pages for.
-
- This could be the beginning of a linux manual. My feeling is that
- a collection of man pages is a very poor substitute for a real manual, but
- the main advantage is that there is very little writing required to get
- something publishable.
-
- --
- Eric Youngdale
- eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
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