From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2026 invoked from network); 31 Jan 1997 13:18:46 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 31 Jan 1997 13:18:46 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA11941; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 08:05:35 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 08:05:35 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199701311307.OAA06392@sgi.ifh.de> To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: Man pages missing In-reply-to: "Juergen Christoffel"'s message of "Fri, 31 Jan 1997 13:36:48 MET." <199701311236.AA30548@mail2.gmd.de> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:07:06 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson Resent-Message-ID: <"fOIKo1.0.Ww2.UuUyo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2855 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Juergen Christoffel wrote: > I second Vidiot's suggestion to separate (a set of) terse man page(s) > and a much larger/better manual. I'd even be willing to help in > putting the latter together. I have to say I'm very much against reducing the man pages. It's more on the theme of `what the average system administrator actually does', which is install the man pages and no other documentation. In my experience (not theory, this is a real problem I've often had) if the information disappears from the man pages it's simply not made available to the user on a great many machines. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +49 33762 77366 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Fax: +49 33762 77413 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen DESY-IfH, 15735 Zeuthen, Germany.