rmf@cs.columbia.edu (Robert M. Fuhrer) (04/02/91)
...this reminds me of a question about A/UX distribution which the local Apple support/sales people have not been able to answer. (Please respond by e-mail as I don't read this group regularly.) Does the standard distribution come with *all* the manual pages on-line? If so, are there any differences in the reference (cf. tutorial) material between the printed documentation and the on-line version? I.e., do I need the printed copy (or can I save a few trees)? I know other Unix systems/environments quite well, and hesitate to buy the printed manuals (given their prohibitive cost) unless I really need the information they contain... From my wishlist: - It would be an even better incentive to buy A/UX on CD if you could get the full manual set on one :-). At this point in time, the only reason I have for buying a CD-ROM drive is to get A/UX in one little package, but I would end up using it only once (for installation) :-(. - Is anyone at Apple working on a more reasonable documentation system for Unix? I have used IBM's (gasp!) InfoExplorer, which is a "hypertext" database browser which is used as an interface to both the command/subroutine reference and background/tutorial information on AIX. Despite the fact that the term "hypertext" is more than a bit ambitious for what they've actually accomplished, the documentation is at least structured by topic from the jump, so that locating relevant info is fairly easy (more so than by using "man -k" or "apropos"). Ironically, "man" strikes me as having one of the most archaic interfaces, especially considering it's the place naive users turn first. -- -------------------------- Robert M. Fuhrer Computer Science Department Columbia University 1117B Fairchild Building Internet: rmf@cs.columbia.edu UUCP: ...!rutgers!cs.columbia.edu!rmf