Complete Man Pages (was Re: UNIX Documentation)
Ralf Holighaus
ralfi at pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de
Thu Jan 17 02:02:17 AEST 1991
ralfi at pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de (Ralf Holighaus) writes:
>jjones at cs.uiuc.edu (Joel Jones) writes:
>>This brings to mind an interesting idea that I have had for a long time. Many
>>of us, no doubt, have been called upon to program more than one flavor of Unix
>>at one time or another. Wouldn't it be nice if there was _one_ set of manuals
>>that could be used for all major variants? What I have in mind would be man
>>pages that would have marked with sidebars the areas in which the semantics
>>and syntax of the command varied from one version to another. Such a set of
>>manuals would be particularly useful for consultants. What do others think?
>>Is this something a major publisher would want to publish? Part of the problem
>>also would be that some vendors might consider use of the information in their
>>manuals as a derived work and subject to their copyright.
>> Joel Jones
>> jjones at uiuc.edu
>Great idea! I'd appreciate someone doing that quit exhausting job!
>And: I think it would be a way to earn good money for almost everybody
>busy with different UNIX systems would be a potential customer...
> Ralf U. Holighaus
> ralfi at pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de
This is now the _correct_ version (I set the LANG variable to german the
last time, so the whole news was full of garbage...)
Ralf.
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