On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 17:45, Rich C wrote: > Right, the man pages are a reference work. That's the way I have always > considered them. You don't start reading the reference section of a > programmers manual to learn a new language, do you? Of course not. Man pages > are NOT a help system. For the CLI, there IS NO HELP SYSTEM. It's as simple > as that.
Okay, I'll bite: VMS's help was good, but it wasn't like it was amazing or anything. Fairly often, I had to hit the proverbial "documentation wall": that stack o' VMS manuals that took up a whole damn table. If man pages == "NO HELP SYSTEM", then what *WOULD* you consider a help system? I know that MS's "help", as convenient as it may be to hit F1, rarely helps me... whereas man pages usually do, and almost always point me in the right direction -- something that MS rarely does. Bottom line: what do you want for help? An AI assistant to help you with everything? If so, I've got some bad news for you... $.02... -Ken ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
