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From: Vidiot <brown@ftms.COM>
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Subject: Re: ZSH presence on WWW cf. Perl
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In-Reply-To: <199603180830.DAA08444@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu> from "Bas V. de Bakker" at Mar 18, 96 09:30:02 am
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<"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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