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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
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 11:31:47 1985
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References: <239@usfvax2.UUCP> <176@maynard.UUCP>
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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
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