Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!cps3xx!usenet From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: More random Unix topics Message-ID: <6782@cps3xx.UUCP> Date: 7 Mar 90 20:05:09 GMT References: <296@amix.commodore.com> <990@calmasd.Prime.COM> Reply-To: porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 23 In article <990@calmasd.Prime.COM> cpp@calmasd.Prime.COM (Chuck Peterson) writes: >I'd like to agree with mwm about the importance of the man pages in unix. >The man pages are one of the best things about unix. You can get >nearly complete help without a hardcopy manual, when you need it. It >would be a shame if commodore has to leave them out. This be a big reason why I wrote HyperHelp. It makes online help easy to use and is quite flexible. LEts you format text the way you need to (color, styles, fonts). It makes the text fit the window (by reformating when widows get resized) instead of making the user size the window for the text. It lets you print the whole file, or just whats in the window. It will even work with plain ASCII files not specially edited for it. Which mean you simply link in any text files you want access to, without modifying them if you don't wanna. All thats missing is a set of AmigaDOS docs on line. I think that this should be included with 1.4, then they can give me piles of royalties, and the Amiga gets on line docs. Note: The above opinion is quite possibly biased. Joe Porkka porkka@frith.egr.msu.edu