Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site calma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!cmcl2!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!sun!calma!radzy From: radzy@calma.UUCP (Tim Radzykewycz) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Creation of net.doc Message-ID: <33@calma.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 11:31:47 EST Article-I.D.: calma.33 Posted: Wed Oct 30 11:31:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 09:31:24 EST References: <239@usfvax2.UUCP> <176@maynard.UUCP> Reply-To: radzy@calma.UUCP (Tim Radzykewycz) Organization: GE/Calma Co., R&D Systems Engineering, Milpitas, CA Lines: 24 In article <176@maynard.UUCP> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes: >net.doc is a bad idea and its name is even worse. The name >is too generic; it should be net.unix.doc. And the need is >unclear. I don't see net.unix getting clogged with postings >of wonderfully readable manuals yearning for a home in >net.unix.doc. Until that happens, why not just post this >stuff in net.unix? Agreed (vehemenantly)! If we find that lots of documents start rolling into net.unix, then we should consider creation of net.unix.doc. Until then, please feel free to post your documents to either/both of net.unix and net.sources. I would particularly welcome posting a VMesS-style help facility to net.sources. It would also be nice to have some kind of conversion program that goes through /usr/man/man?/* and finds the options for each program, and creates the initial level of help menus for everything not supplied with the program. -- Tim (radzy) Radzykewycz, The Incredible Radical Cabbage calma!radzy@ucbvax.ARPA {ucbvax,sun,csd-gould}!calma!radzy