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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)
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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?
-- 
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