The older I get the happier I am to be using ksh.
But I do find I get increasingly impatient with the man page.
ksh isn't just a shell any more; it's a full-blown programming
language, and having all the documentation on one man page is a
bit much.  I am *not* advocating for a web page or an info document
or for PDF; I love my command line and get annoyed when software
doesn't have man pages.  But I also think some attention to modular
reasoning would pay dividends.  Normally I have nothing good to say
about perl, but it is a case where I think they have done a good job
taking a large programming language and splitting its documentation
over multiple man pages.

I am wondering how Dave and Glenn would feel about having ksh.1 split
over multiple man pages and if there might be any readers of this list
who would be interested in helping with such a job?


Norman

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