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From: cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: On-line manuals
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Date: 7 Feb 91 14:36:03 GMT
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On-line manuals.
 
du on the current man directory gives 336K: when the distribution was only
8 or so disks, this was probably significant.  It's hard to see the problem
now.  Having no unix experience, I found Minix was unusable without on-line
manuals for the commands, so when I got (1.2) I wrote my own in the standard
format.  In due course ast posted some man pages for 1.4, and I updated these
for PC 1.5.10 commands and posted them.  They are in various archives, or in
Guy Helmer's FD stuff.  I imagine I'll do the same for 1.6.xx in due course.
By the way, if you are writing manuals, *PLEASE* do not use formatters such
as troff.  They look lovely if you have the cpu cycles to spare, but they
bring the average XT clone to its knees.  Further, none of the Minix
formatters (mroff, nroff, roff etc.) are especially compatible, tho' mroff
looks like a winner.
 
The state of the manual sections is:
    O - needs work
    1 - complete (see above)
    2 - needs at lot of work
    3 - complete (I think)
    4 - needs a little work
    5 - non-existent
    6 - needs work
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