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From: Vidiot <brown@ftms.COM>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: ZSH presence on WWW cf. Perl
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:44:05 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199603181544.JAA03188@ftms.ftms.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199603180830.DAA08444@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu> from "Bas V. de Bakker" at Mar 18, 96 09:30:02 am

<
<"Richard J Coleman" <coleman@math.gatech.edu> writes:
<
<> I agree that nroff is terrible.  I've been thinking maybe it's time
<> to scrap man pages altogether.  Put all the documentation into a
<> latex file, and create a nice zsh manual.
<
<I like to have documentation on-line as well.  But every time I
<proposed keeping only the texinfo file, there were loud protests from
<various people.  I don't remember exactly why, probably because they
<had nothing to read info with.
<
<Bas.

Bingo.  Man pages are the way to get info on Unix programs.  Trying to tell
a user that there are TWO ways to find out how a program works will not
go over very well.  Nroff man pages are here to stay.

MB
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-03-18 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-03-15 23:56 Mark Borges
1996-03-16  0:12 ` Richard J. Coleman
1996-03-18  8:30   ` Bas V. de Bakker
1996-03-18  8:47     ` Peter Stephenson
1996-03-18 15:44     ` Vidiot [this message]
1996-03-16  0:27 ` Chris Dean
1996-03-16  6:12 ` Zefram
1996-03-18  8:21   ` Bas V. de Bakker
1996-03-18  9:07     ` Zefram
1996-03-18 19:47       ` Mark Borges

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