Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!oleg From: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: AIX Documentation Message-ID: <20407@gryphon.COM> Date: 30 Sep 89 11:44:23 GMT References: <2132@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1989Sep30.013213.23458@tmsoft.uucp> Reply-To: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) Organization: HASA Lines: 21 In article <1989Sep30.013213.23458@tmsoft.uucp> mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason) writes: >manuals: heavy on leading you through where to find the `enter' key; >light on explaining what is going on (or describing the 1000 ways AIX >does things differently from SysV or BSD). AIX-PS/2 and AIX/370 doccumentation is substantially better. Also, wherever possible and where it did not contradict POSIX and the needs of TCF (in AIX/370), 4.3BSD and sVr2 semantics, flags and functionality were implemented. >I don't know whether you can get on-line manual pages or not... AIX/370 comes with on-line man pages. >anybody want to buy a nice fully configured RT? Perhaps the architects who misconceived that baby would take it back? -- "No regrets, no apologies" Ronald Reagan Oleg Kiselev ARPA: lcc.oleg@seas.ucla.edu, oleg@gryphon.COM (213)337-5230 UUCP: [world]!{ucla-se|gryphon}!lcc!oleg