henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (07/18/89)
In article <5029@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >So the UNIX User's Manual isn't a tutorial... big deal. It's one of the best >*reference* manuals in the business. I have long thought that one of Unix's most underrated contributions to computing was the discovery that many commands could be documented quite adequately for *reference* purposes in one page. (Well, I must make one reservation here: this might have come from Multics or CTSS, which I've never seen manuals for.) As opposed to a 50-page manual, with one page of information content, for each command. -- $10 million equals 18 PM | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology (Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu