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Subject: [9fans] Re: h for sam
Date: Mon,  4 Dec 2000 09:49:19 +0000
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gwyn@arl.army.mil... 
>Hm, if you *have* to have a "help" command in sam,
>why not have it just open a window attached to the
>appropriate help-document path on the host?

sam doesn't have windows. That's samterm. I built just the sam part for my
Linux distro, which has an X-less "Core" that I basically live in.

>Otherwise a lot of the process space is occupied
>with an embedded, hard-to-update help file.

My tastes for online docs are definitely as presented, in contrast to ed,
sam and so on. My tastes for interdependancies leaves Plan9 interesting
for reasons other than it's distributed-ness. Tastes obviously vary. Even
on Plan9, I'm sure I'd personally go with the simplicity of an h key as
presented as, in addition to whatever.

Rick Hohensee
Forth, unix, cLIeNUX
www.clienux.com