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From: goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Inappropiate "BUGS" Sections
Message-ID: <7962@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 90 18:25:32 GMT
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In article <5940019@hpcupt1.HP.COM> jamiller@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Jim Miller) writes:
>>Not looking at documents from the customer perspective is one of 
>>the marks of engineers.  We all need to improve in this area.
>
> ...the man pages as they exist will win out over "professional" (suit,
> tie, and useless) ones.

Sorry, SCO Xenix (and I'll bet SCO Unix as well) doesn't have a "bugs"
section in its manuals.  They call it "comments" or the like.  Xenix
is probably the most popular Unix variant ever to have hit the market.
It does seem a bit childish to, in effect, censor the word "bugs" from
manual pages.  The statement that the "suit and tie" straitjacket will
never win out, however, just isn't true.  The suits and ties invariably
get control of any situation they find it useful to control :-(.  It's
a sad by-product of our economic system.

   -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
   goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer