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From: ado@elsie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: reading manuals (was Sun and 4.3 csh (was lpd problems))
Message-ID: <7370@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Mar-87 18:29:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 27 18:29:16 1987
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Summary: I'm obviously no one

> The only way to find out about the change was to do a man csh after the
> upgrade.  This is a little unreasonable -- obviously no one is going to 
> read 8 sections of UNIX manuals to find out if things are upward compatable.

This is not so obvious--some people do read eight sections of UNIX manuals
(as well as supplementary documentation) before installing a new version of
the operating system.  Yes, doing so takes time--and it takes less time than
would be spent solving problems after the fact.
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