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From: jwabik@shamash.UUCP (Jeff Wabik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Online Guru ..
Message-ID: <3451@shamash.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 16:10:35 GMT
References: <2665@shamash.UUCP> <586@mcrware.UUCP> <841@hubcap.UUCP>
Organization: Control Data Corporation, Bloomington, MN.
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In article <841@hubcap.UUCP>, hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall) writes:
> * > I'm curious if there exists (running
> * > on any system, ... a sort_of, "Online Guru".. 
> * > Software that you could literally ask, "How to I do disk backups", to
> * > which the response would be, "Dump is the UNIX utility that [...].
> * > Please see the manual page for dump(8) for further [...]."

> have you tried "man -k KEYWORD" ?

I was thinking more of an AI doohickey that would interact with you more
like a "human guru".  I received a number of excellent responses (like
30 or 35) via E/Mail -- Thanks to all.  If anyone would like a compiled
copy of the stuff I received, please drop me a note.

	-Jeff

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