Observations (was: Gripes about /bin/sh AND /bin/csh)
David Keppel
keppel at pavepaws.berkeley.edu
Mon Jun 16 03:59:31 AEST 1986
In article <112 at ozdaltx.UUCP> root at ozdaltx.UUCP (root) writes:
>"The only STUPID question is the one that is never asked.." - Anon.
>
>It is sad but true that the manuals provided with this system are often
>very poorly written and/or include so much techinical jorgan that
>the intent of the section gets lost in the translation... (Are
>you listening MicroSoft and/or Tandy ????).
>[ description of 'expr' not taking negative arguments ]
I'm told by some of the locals that when Sun bought their 4BSD license
they went through the manuals and _TOOK_OUT_ a whole bunch of the
"BUGS" section entries, because they didn't want to look bad! @$%*#%!
(Then, of course, a whole bunch of other companies probably followed the lead)
;-D avid K eppel ..!ucbvax!pavepaws!keppel
"Learning by Osmosis: Gospel in, Gospel out"
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