man pages (was: '386 Unix Wars)

[Conway Yee]

In article <52585 at bigtex.cactus.org> james at bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
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>It is the case that AT&T strongly discourages this for some reason.

Why does AT&T discourage it?

>It's very expensive for a vendor to offer the man pages on line, but
>it's also pretty popular with end users.

Why is it so expensive?  Presumably, all the documentation is already
online somewhere so that it can be easily updated.  Nobody uses
typewriters anymore.  Everything is word processed.

>This is probably a good catagory for the monthly product comparison
>chart, if it's not already there.

True.
	

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