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From: japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Documentation for Minix 1.3d
Message-ID: <1135@csm9a.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 02:26:51 GMT
References: <6309@louie.udel.EDU> <1871@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
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In article <1871@ast.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> In article <6309@louie.udel.EDU> jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241) writes:
> >There are several things not in there.
> >So I still maintain that the book plus on-line documentation does NOT give
> >a new user complete information.
> If you could make a list of missing parts, maybe they could be generated.
> I think every program has a man page either in the book or in the on line
> list, but if something has been omitted, please point it out.

I am in the process of adding all the man_pages from the book as well as some
additional doc on asld, cc, kermit, stevie, elle, and profile to helpfile
and will post it as soon as I am finished.  I have also modified help.c to
page the documentation and list all the available commands if no command is
given.  I will post those diffs as well.  I am curently up to the p* commands
from the manual... I have spent close to 8 hours on this already and would
welcome ANY help by mailing me man_pages input or scanned from the manual.

The goal of this venture is to give a complete and user maintainable on-line
help system for Minix.

Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center