On Fri, 26 May 2006, Michael Ahlers wrote:

As this debate has raged on for nearly a week (or more?) now, I think it
is time we propose a new approach to resolve once and for all this "help
switch dilemma."

The way help should work is:

  At the shell prompt, prepend "man " to the name of the command;
  hit return;
  read the help.

That's how it worked on every BTL UNIX,
thanks mainly to Doug McIlroy.  It's
hateful that it doesn't work today.

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Tom Duff.  Utilizes the latest Fibonacci tuning fork technology!

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