[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[Michael Kraemer]

AEF schrieb:
> On Jan 28, 1:46 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> 
>>AEF schrieb:
>>
>>
>>>New! From IDG books: DOS for Dummkopfs.
>>
>>That should be "Dummköpfe", but Umlauts are not everybody's
>>strong points.
> 
> 
> That's what it is in English. I even checked at www.webster.com. Do
> you expect me to write "Deutschland" instead of "Germany"? "Republique
> francaise" instead of "France"?

If "Dummkopf" has made it into the English language just
like "Kindergarten", that's fine with me.

> 
>>Back to the point: Neither VMS Help nor Unix man pages
>>are appropriate for learning either OS from scratch.
> 
> 
> The VMS User's manual is.

This is a different beast.
Compare VMS help with man pages
and User's manuals with User's manuals.

> 
>>They are meant as a reminder for forgotten keywords and such.
>>If you have no clue about those OS, both help systems
>>are next to useless.
> 
> 
>>I had to work on VMS before I knew Unix and found
>>VMS, its filesystem and its HELP less intuitive.
>>So Unix was a progress.
> 
> 
> I find the man pages dense and visually difficult to read (an example
> of poor typography). And the ones I have usually show several versions
> of the same command with the differences specified in the name of the
> command via different paths. You know: path1/cp, path2/cp, etc., where
> path1 and path2 may be very similar in appearance. Which one is the
> one I will be running if I just specify cp? (This is intuitive?)
> 
> Someone at work showed me a website which reformmated the man pages
> into something much easier to read. Can't be just me who finds the
> original man pages visually difficult to read.

man pages were invented before WWW (as was  VMS help)
and were designed for terminal capabilities back then
So it may well be that a more modern medium like HTML
will give better results.
But I have no difficulties reading man pages.