On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:03 pm, rikona wrote:
> Hello Richard,
>
> Sunday, September 21, 2003, 3:03:45 AM, you wrote:

> RU> apropos doesn't work because the man pages call it y.
>
> Yep - another part of the problem. M$ help suffers from the same
> problem, although their overall integration of help is a step in the
> right direction. Newbies can describe the question in 'natural
> language', which is unfortunately not the language used in the OS
> data base. The first OS that uses a thesaurus well will really be a
> winner. I'm hoping that will be Mandrake. How can we do that?

MS help suffers from contextual help disease: tech writers are given a 
list of every menu entry and dialog and think that by documenting all 
of these their job is done. You end up with the man problem again; no 
howto.

-- 
Richard Urwin

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