[Info-vax] Radical command line suggestion

[mcleanjoh at gmail.com]

On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 12:46:47 AM UTC+11, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-03-20 14:30:
> > On 2015-03-20 13:16:08 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
> >
> >> Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-03-20 14:09:
> >>> On 2015-03-20 12:41:30 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
> >>>
> >>>> And if you are not, $ HELP HELP
> >>>
> >>> You know far too much about VMS here, and -- for this particular
> >>> discussion -- that is not a good thing. And yes, HELP is clearly useful
> >>> for you. In short, you are not the audience for my comments, nor for
> >>> these particular changes.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> HELP are for sys admins. Normal "users" never come close to the "$".
> >> So yes, I'm part of the audience. :-)
> >
> > No.  You're really not.  Sorry.  You know far too much.
> 
> I know enough to firmly belive in what I'm talkning about... :-)
> 
> >
> >> And besides, how do you expected anyone new to *any* environment
> >> automaticly know to type "man", "HELP" or anything else?
> >
> > Now you're getting a little closer to the target audience for the task guides.
> >
> 
> Right, publish an updated "Getting Started" manual then.
> You have to start *somewhere*...

$ HELP hints

... seems to have been an attempt to make things easier for new users, the kind of people who have to search for 5 minutes to find how to enter one command then another 5 minutes for the next commend and so on.