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From: ralfi@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de (Ralf Holighaus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Complete Man Pages (was Re: UNIX Documentation)
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.150217.5328@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de>
Date: 16 Jan 91 15:02:17 GMT
Organization: PEM Programmentwicklungsgesellschaft fuer Microcomputer mbH, Stuttgart, Germany
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ralfi@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de (Ralf Holighaus) writes:

>jjones@cs.uiuc.edu (Joel Jones) writes:

>>This brings to mind an interesting idea that I have had for a long time.  Many
>>of us, no doubt, have been called upon to program more than one flavor of Unix
>>at one time or another.  Wouldn't it be nice if there was _one_ set of manuals
>>that could be used for all major variants?  What I have in mind would be man
>>pages that would have marked with sidebars the areas in which the semantics
>>and syntax of the command varied from one version to another.  Such a set of
>>manuals would be particularly useful for consultants.  What do others think?
>>Is this something a major publisher would want to publish?  Part of the problem
>>also would be that some vendors might consider use of the information in their
>>manuals as a derived work and subject to their copyright.
>>  Joel Jones
>>  jjones@uiuc.edu

>Great idea! I'd appreciate someone doing that quit exhausting job!
>And: I think it would be a way to earn good money for almost everybody
>busy with different UNIX systems would be a potential customer...

>	Ralf U. Holighaus
>	ralfi@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de

This is now the _correct_ version (I set the LANG variable to german the
last time, so the whole news was full of garbage...)

	Ralf.
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