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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: PLEA across the board. Date: 21 Apr 1993 16:57:02 -0500 Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX Lines: 21 Message-ID: <1r4fveINNphk@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <jmonroyC5rz7x.LA1@netcom.com> <1993Apr21.200507.7489@fcom.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil Keywords: version information In article <1993Apr21.200507.7489@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > >If typing "man" is "too cryptic", ln it to "help" on your system; if using >"man" is too cryptic, archie for "help"... there are many excellent packages. >To exaggerate a [very] little, every third Senior project is a help system. > > I found that a much more 'help'ful link was to 'ln' apropos to help. This was good for two reasons. The first (and most loudly exclaimed) was that no one could remember how to spell apropos. The second was that I needed a bargaining chit to get folks to start learning about Unix and stop whining because it wasn't a VAX running VMS... -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX