Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!olivea!tymix!cirrusl!sunstorm!dhesi From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: '386 Unix Wars Keywords: sco unix interactive wars Message-ID: <2862@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 9 Jan 91 07:37:08 GMT References: <276d312d-8aecomp.unix.i386@point.UUCP> <33791527@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Dec20.175625.17487@eci386.uucp> <357@metran.UUCP> <1990Dec23.160807.3207@virtech.uucp> <2834@cirrusl.UUCP> <95@comix.UUCP> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 31 In <95@comix.UUCP> jeffl@comix.UUCP (Jeff Liebermann) writes: >The answer to this problem is in front of your face. The >index should be on-line. One should be able to type a keyword >and some database should belch the document name, current >version, and page references. Ah, for standard UNIX tools: cd /usr/man egrep 'bunch|of|things|to|look|for' */* This is partly why I give BSD and SunOS much higher marks than System V. Although BSD's printed manual pages are only slightly better than those of System V, the fact that they are online and can be searched easily makes them much more useful. Alas, I hear that newer BSD's won't have the online documentation (I hope this is a vicious and false rumor). The System V philosphy, of making documentation available only in printed form, and then having almost every page numbered 1 or 2, is very silly. I can understand this if the printed manuals are simply copies of the online manuals and mimic their individual page numbering. But if the printed manuals are the only documentation, then AT&T should at least get the page numbering right. Pages are numbered beginning from 1, and then you continue with 2, 3, 4, etc., until you run out of pages. Then you add an index, and the index refers you to specific pages. -- History never | Rahul Dhesi becomes obsolete. | UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi