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- From: jdc@kendrick.cse.nau.edu (John Campbell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: man pages?
- Message-ID: <6249@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 01:40:32 GMT
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- From article <C0ACIs.3DM@zero.com>, by steve@zero.com (Steve Urich):
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- : 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.
- --
- John Campbell John.Campbell@nau.edu
- jdc@sunset.cse.nau.edu JDC@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU
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