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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd,net.bugs.usg
Subject: On-line manual references to environment variables
Message-ID: <2296@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 02:53:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.2296
Posted: Wed Sep 21 02:53:54 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Sep-83 07:23:04 EDT
Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Since time immemorial, UNIX manual pages have had a "FILES" section
which summarized, in one easily found spot, what files a program uses.

I would like to see a simlar "VARIABLES" section. A complicated
program (take readnews or sh, for example) uses many environment variables.
It would be nice if every UNIX manual page had a brief summary, at
the end, of all of the environment variables which the program looks
at.

Anybody listening out there at Bell or Berkeley?

Dave Sherman
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