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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:16:27 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails
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the fact that the unix environment has gotten out of control had
made things that should be simple (like man), quite difficult.

unfortunately, that's a different problem.  my main issue with
tcl is this:

	; man -k tcl|wc -l
	7191

that's just a wee bit out of control, no?

- erik

On Mon Apr 24 21:03:56 CDT 2006, rvs@sun.com wrote:
> > i'm probablly on my own in this, but tcl is just strange, and its
> > linux implementation never ceases to annoy, and it's way too big.
> > since when is \t anything other than whitespace?  (python, unfortunately, did
> > the same thing).  when i try to "man -k" on a system with tcl,
> > i get a hundred of useless tcl/tk commands.
>
>   Yeap. In fact, I still don't understand why $ man foo/bar doesn't do
>   what I perceive to be the right thing...
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.