6 Apr
2020
6 Apr
'20
2:17 a.m.
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Ronald Natalie wrote:
The Lions book wasn’t really published back in the
day. It was only
targetted at his students in Australia (though copies leaked out).
Leaked out? Apparently it's the most photocopied book in the world! I
had the originals but sadly lost them in a house move (along with all
issues of AUUGN).
The manuals aren’t really a book (and again, they
weren’t really
published as a book) and most of the prose on UNIX was more in the form
of articles than an entire book.
I still reckon that the manpage format is perfect at what it does: telling
you what you need to know right away without going through various menu
levels (and that's not a dig at "info" but just an observation in
general).
-- Dave