the fact that the unix environment has gotten out of control had
made things that should be simple (like man), quite difficult.

unfortunately, that's a different problem.  my main issue with
tcl is this:

        ; man -k tcl|wc -l
        7191

that's just a wee bit out of control, no?

- erik

On Mon Apr 24 21:03:56 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > i'm probablly on my own in this, but tcl is just strange, and its
> > linux implementation never ceases to annoy, and it's way too big. 
> > since when is \t anything other than whitespace?  (python, unfortunately, 
> > did
> > the same thing).  when i try to "man -k" on a system with tcl,
> > i get a hundred of useless tcl/tk commands.
> 
>   Yeap. In fact, I still don't understand why $ man foo/bar doesn't do 
>   what I perceive to be the right thing...
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.

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