[comp.unix.wizards] reading manuals

ado@elsie.UUCP (03/28/87)

> The only way to find out about the change was to do a man csh after the
> upgrade.  This is a little unreasonable -- obviously no one is going to 
> read 8 sections of UNIX manuals to find out if things are upward compatable.

This is not so obvious--some people do read eight sections of UNIX manuals
(as well as supplementary documentation) before installing a new version of
the operating system.  Yes, doing so takes time--and it takes less time than
would be spent solving problems after the fact.
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