Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 06:53:27 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beginners with bsd Message-ID: <14850.46407.660250.699148@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <5878289@toto.iv>
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Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> types: > I'll throw in my dime's worth and suggest that every `info' > page be turned into a man-style page with hyperlinks. If > hyperlinks (and space) been available 25 years ago, every > manual entry would've had links. Another think the man > pages would've had is examples. The reason man pages were > so terse was that disk space was extremely costly. Gee, and I thought it was because programmers hated writing documentation. I know I do. In fact, someone here (wasn't it here) recently provided a pointer to an AT&T page on Unix history, wherein one specific person was creditied with making sure that all programs on Unix had man pages - and even to getting some programs rewritten to be up to the standards for the man pages. Now disk space being costly may well be why the original Unix man pages weren't formated, but kept on disk in nroff form and formatted when you read them. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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