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From: mitchell@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
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Subject: ATT SVR3 distribution
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 21:41:41 EDT
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From what I understand, SVR3 does not come with a machine readable version
of the system manual pages for on-line man pages and a on-line record of
changes/enhansements made to the system.  I've always thought that this
was one of the most efficient things about the UNIX development/operating
environment.

I am suprised at this because I understand that until release 3 on-line
man pages came with ATT distributions (especially with a source distribution
like we got), and now the only references that I have are the physical manuals.

An ATT sales representitive told me that the new ASSIST software in SVR3
would somehow be a replacement for and even better than on-line man pages.

ASSIST does not support "help" with any of the programming system/library
calls that I OFTEN need, it only can help with shell commands (an a subset
at that!).

I (personaly) just see that ATT could have been more considerate of developers 
that are makeing THEIR system valuable by not throwing away facilities that we 
take as being part of our development environment.

I see this as being another obsticle that I have to work around (as if I dont
have enough just developing a system).

							Sincerely,

							Mitchell