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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ISC vs SCO UNIX review
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.164926.14713@world.std.com>
Date: 27 Oct 89 16:49:26 GMT
References: <5866@dime.cs.umass.edu> <7125@ki4pv.uucp>
Reply-To: madd@world.UUCP (jim frost)
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In article <7125@ki4pv.uucp> tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
|In article <5866@dime.cs.umass.edu>, williams@cs.umass.edu writes:
|) Only SCO includes on-line documentation in the form of man pages.
|Warning: at least with xenix, SCO ship man pages as nroff OUTPUT.

Better than nothing.  I seriously thought about killing someone when I
found that 386/ix didn't have them.  If it wasn't for the SunOS SysV
compatibility and its man pages that were just an ethernet away, I
would have.

Vendors listen up: many of us humble (and not so humble) programmers
loose much productivity while trying to figure out which manual and
which page has the description of [insert seldom-used function here].
You make no friends by stripping this stuff out.  The inclusion of man
pages is one of the very few things that I actually liked about Xenix,
and their loss was number one on my list of things I didn't like about
386/ix.

jim frost
software tool & die     "The World" Public Access Unix for the '90s
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