Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!brl-adm!adm!rbj@icst-cmr.arpa From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: System V lp setup Message-ID: <6461@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 16:50:20 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.6461 Posted: Mon Mar 30 16:50:20 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Apr-87 01:39:40 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 29 2. the new System V manuals are AWFULL!!!! the original, spiral-bound manuals were great, by comparison, except that they fell apart. anyone have any comments? Definitely! I scanned the SVr2v2 manuals. Yuk! I suppose renumbering the sections doesn't really make a difference, but why bother. The VI reference was incomplete, and an appendix claiming to list commands `in alphabetical' order sure munged up the punctuation. But worst of all was the omission of the paper `Unix Programming', aka document #17 in Volume 2A. How the fsck do you learn to program without reading that thing? If TPC wants to include papers written at Dick and Jane level, that's ok, but NOT AS REPLACEMENTS! Some things just can't be improved upon. Oh, yeah. The binders are those little ones, the same size that DEC uses for VMS. Even the SVr1 binders that were the correct size had completely incompatibly spaced rings. Is this a conspiracy so you won't throw the documentation away just for the binders? Some Standard! in real life: John D. Miller, Graphic Software Systems, Inc., Beaverton OR ...!{tektronix!verdix}!sequent!gssc!jdm (Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell Hmmm..a CRIPPLED ACCOUNTANT with a FALAFEL sandwich is HIT by a TROLLEY-CAR.. Disclaimer: I speak not for NBS, but for myself.