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From: dyker@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Barbara Dyker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: hp-ux online manuals
Keywords: hp-ux manual discrepencies flame
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Date: 31 May 88 23:43:56 GMT
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In article <474@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk> aledm@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk (Aled Morris) writes:
>Why don't the online manuals for HP-UX bear any similarity to the
>pre-printed versions?...
>...The pre-printed manual doesn't
>say this at all (and I've got "nlist" on my series 300---I trust the
>pre-printed opinion).

That's odd.  On our system (5.5 on 320) if there is a discrepancy, the online
man pages have the most complete accurate info for the machine it is on.  My
experience has been that the pre-printed man pages are generic - the same for
200s, 300s, 500s, and 800s - but the online stuff only has what is applicable
to that series.  For maintaining two sets of manuals the information is most
consistent.  I'm suprised there aren't more discrepencies!

Quite annoying.

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