kyle@xanth.UUCP (10/02/87)
In article <42400003@uicsrd>, kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes: > What is shipped as a man page is over 40 printed pages long, and > should be considered a User Guide. A short man page should be > created. Maybe. I've discovered that users in general do not like to be referred somewhere else to get information on a command. This is partially laziness and partially because if they look, the referred to manuals are nowhere to be found. If the referred to manuals are on the system they are most like in nroff/troff form, which means the user has to know how to set up a tbl|nroff|col|more pipeline to finally get the manual onto his screen. This is ridiculous considering all the user originally wanted to do was learn how to use vi.