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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Unix, Unixpeople, Usenix - from a n
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 14:26:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 14:26:59 1985
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Organization: Celerity Computing (Eastern Region), Framingham, MA
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In article <9700101@uiucdcs> mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
>
>Come on, this obviously belongs in net.jokes. How could anyone take seriously a
>statement like:
>	"... one ends up having to struggle for days to
>	figure out how do things with Unix that could be determined in a
>	few minutes with a DEC or IBM manual."
>Find anything useful in a few minutes in a DEC or IBM manual? Don't be
>ridiculous.
>
>
>			Scott McEwan

I can certainly take it seriously.  For the most part, Unix documentation
tells you how to use some command, function, etc. whose existence and function
you already know - pure reference.  Alas, there is no tutorial, or "User's 
Guide," furnished in standard documentation.  (We at Celerity ship a commodity
Unix paperback with each system.)

Is it the job of an OS supplier to furnish "how-to" books (i.e., how to
back up, how to add users, how to build programs for the specific OS)?

Sure is.


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