11 Nov
2017
11 Nov
'17
12:12 a.m.
Larry wrote:
I believe the 4BSD manuals (those ones with
red/yellow/green plastic
binders) had listings of the commands with the synopsis, either they
did or someone gave such a thing. That was a big jump start.
That sounds like the permuted index of the man page's whatis(1) line
built by ptx(1). Yes, it was great to skim through that and jump off to
whatever caught one's eye.
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Cheers, Ralph.
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