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Re: Man pages missing

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: Man pages missing
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:07:06 +0100
In-reply-to: "Juergen Christoffel"'s message of "Fri, 31 Jan 1997 13:36:48 MET." <199701311236.AA30548@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Juergen Christoffel wrote:
> I second Vidiot's suggestion to separate (a set of) terse man page(s)
> and a much larger/better manual. I'd even be willing to help in
> putting the latter together.

I have to say I'm very much against reducing the man pages.  It's more on
the theme of `what the average system administrator actually does', which
is install the man pages and no other documentation.  In my experience
(not theory, this is a real problem I've often had) if the information
disappears from the man pages it's simply not made available to the
user on a great many machines.

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