[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<6a28aa9f-b23c-4aec-a419-18932d0455ef at n2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>,
 AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Reading Unix documentation is no fun. The man pages are formatted with
> proportional spacing of fixed-width characters so as to make the right
> margin straight. That makes it ugly and hard to read. The business
> world ruled it out long ago. Ragged edge is the way to go with fixed-
> width font.

The VMS documentation itself was the first to go for a ragged right edge 
and fixed-width characters after being right aligned for so many years.

I liked the look and wrote my CV to look like that (until someone 
complained 'it didn't look professional' - not my fault they were behind 
the times, but I adapted it in the light of their comment).

> It's amazing I ever stumbled upon the 'cd -' command, which useful for
> going to your previous working directory. I certainly wouldn't have
> found it here!

See my answer to VAXman.

-- 
Paul Sture