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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kerch2$jdd$1 at online.de>,
	helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> In article <anckgjF5etiU3 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
> (Bill Gunshannon) writes: 
> 
>> Much like a VMS-like HELP system.  People here are constanly knocking
>> the unix manpages system while holding up the HELP system as the
>> epitome of online documentation but still,no one has bothered to
>> write one for Unix. To me that just shows that people on Unix don't
>> hold it at the same level of esteem and writing one would be a
>> waste of time.
> 
> In other words, unix types don't value good documentation as highly.  I 
> agree.

Talk about NIH Syndorme...

And we come full circle again.  Because you find something difficult
everyone must find it that way?  As I have said numerous times in the
past, the HELP style of online documentation is common enough that
it is hard to imagine that unix types have never encountered it. It
is trivial to write. (I could do it in COBOL!!) And yet, no one has
ever bothered to come up with one for Unix.  Oh wait, I remember one
now.  To go along with their MSDOS Shell Tandy had a DOS Style HELP
command that provided documentation for the MSDOS Shell on all their
XENIX (aka Unix SYSIII) systems.  In my experience supporting users
on these systems I found both to receive the same reception from the
uswers. 
 
bill

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