Complete Man Pages (was Re: UNIX Documentation)

Alex Martelli alex at am.sublink.org
Sat Jan 12 23:05:32 AEST 1991


jjones at cs.uiuc.edu (Joel Jones) writes:
	...
:at one time or another.  Wouldn't it be nice if there was _one_ set of manuals
:that could be used for all major variants?  What I have in mind would be man
:pages that would have marked with sidebars the areas in which the semantics

I WOULD give an eye and a tooth for this, and I'm NOT joking.  Such
a manual would easily be worth upwards of a thousand dollars to us,
just for parts 2 and 3; even more if complete.  We must support more
than 10 different platforms...!

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