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- From: dla@se05 (Doug Acker)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Gimme back my man pages (was: Re: ksh question)
- Message-ID: <1639@airgun.wg.waii.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 20:20:08 GMT
- References: <NICK.92Nov5093629@alphaville.osf.org> <1992Nov9.162604.22127@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> <1992Nov15.030026.6001@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov15.030026.6001@samba.oit.unc.edu> Eli.Mantel@launchpad.unc.edu (Eli Mantel) writes:
- >konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik) writes:
- >>I was posting from home and was too lazy to fire up ascii-Info to struggle
- >>through what is left of the ksh documentation. Gimme back my man pages.
- >
- >As a relative newbie to the AIX world, I was appalled to find the man pages
- >replaced by this useless piece of crap called info. It's bad enough they've
- >turned the Unix manual from one or two volumes into a full shelf of manuals,
- >(and in turn causing the man command to spit out lots of worthless junk),
- >but then they had to take the man page files away, thereby preventing you from
- >using the grep command to find what you need.
- >
- >I guess IBM failed to fully appreciate that "man" wasn't the only interface to
- >the man pages that people were using.
-
- ...an at 3.2, the man command takes much much longer .... The good news, all
- this is going to change .. apparently POSIX has decided they need "normal"
- man pages .... (according to my ETR/DCR information)... it seems they are going
- to overhaul the man/info system.
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