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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Message-ID: <DrEv0E.17A@kithrup.com>
References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4n76vv$29j@innocence.interface-business.de> <kaleb.832080109@exalt> <4naf20$bdh@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 19:48:14 GMT
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In article <4naf20$bdh@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
Henry G. Juengst <juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>You ignore that you will not find the man pages if you do not know
>these names. Just try to look for 'Wide-Char-TO-Multi-Byte' or bessel
>functions. That is the reason why it is not simple for beginners. It
>is not a problem for me.

kithrup 1% man -k bessel
j0 (3) - bessel functions of first and second kind
j1 (3) - bessel functions of first and second kind
jn (3) - bessel functions of first and second kind
y0 (3) - bessel functions of first and second kind
y1 (3) - bessel functions of first and second kind
yn (3) - bessel functions of first and second kind

The only thing I had to know was that "man -k" did a search for keywords,
which is not too difficult a thing to know (if you're going to be expected
to know enough to compile a program, you can be expected to know enough to
run the system's help programs, whatever they may be called).

But since that doesn't help prove your point, I expect you to ignore it.
Big deal.