VMS-HELP on UNIX ?

William L. Sebok wls at astrovax.UUCP
Thu Oct 24 04:03:47 AEST 1985


One small change in man would move things a long way in the right direction.
When the man command is given with no arguments, rather than  (or as well
as) the Usage: message it should print a list of the keywords on which man
info is available.

In addition,
	man -n
where n is a section number, would print out the list of keywords available
in that section.

With this modification one would be much better equipped to browse through
the manual and perhaps see what interesting local commands are available.

Sure, one could get this info by browsing through /usr/man/*, but a beginner
shouldn't be expected to know that.  Neither should one count on that the
manual info always be present there.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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