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From: alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Complete Man Pages (was Re: UNIX Documentation)
Keywords: unix, documentation, manual, research, index
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.120532.455@am.sublink.org>
Date: 12 Jan 91 12:05:32 GMT
References: <276d312d-8aecomp.unix.i386@point.UUCP> <33791527@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Dec28.004756.6019@eci386.uucp> <1990Dec29.045924.656@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> <2856@cirrusl.UUCP> <1991Jan9.200617.25296@eci386.uucp> <1991Jan10.172329.13247@julius.cs.uiuc.edu>
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jjones@cs.uiuc.edu (Joel Jones) writes:
	...
: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

I WOULD give an eye and a tooth for this, and I'm NOT joking.  Such
a manual would easily be worth upwards of a thousand dollars to us,
just for parts 2 and 3; even more if complete.  We must support more
than 10 different platforms...!

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