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Re: single manpage vs multiple files

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From: Jason Price <jprice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: single manpage vs multiple files
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:05:14 -0500
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:41:29PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> What is the reason for separating Zsh manpage into several files?  A
> single manpage (ie. man zsh) would be easier, no?

Because it's enormous?  "Back in the day" of 2400 baud modems when I was in
college, doing a "man zsh | write <user>" was considered by some to be
funny (before people got clever and did things like 'cat /dev/kmem | od |
write....).

However, on all the installs I have around have a zshall man page that
people can get to if they really want.

Jason

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