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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
Message-ID: <6310@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 19:01:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 19:01:21 1987
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As quoted from <10515@brl-adm.ARPA> by dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill):
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| >It is trivial to say "ln /bin/cat /bin/type"; why don't we do it?
| 
| One reason is that linking `type' to `cat' doesn't create a man page
| for `type'.
+---------------

....but once you bring man pages into it, we got far worse problems than
cryptic commands and typos in * commands!
-- 
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