Re: Time to shut down this list?

From: Nikolas Britton (freebsd_at_nbritton.org)
Date: 12/24/04

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    Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:31:44 -0600
To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>

    > Speaking of "help" I have always though this sould at least be an
    > alise to man (or "man man", or "man %foo")... but what I really want a
    > clone of the MSDOS 6.xx Help system of the same name, when you typed
    > in help with no args. it would load a "hypertext" curses program that
    > listed all the commands (like "whatis") and then you could select a
    > command for detail info about it. anyways... in the DOS world you
    > always type'd "help, "help foo", or "foo /?" for help so for most
    > people new to unix and freebsd whatis and man are unknow to them.

    I may have a simple solution to this: create a new man page named
    "help", in this man page is a brief (newbie oriented) one page guide on
    how to use the man pages and how to find commands to use (whatis /
    apropos, btw who came up with that name? I could not remember it if my
    life depended on it). this man page would then be aliased as "help".
    what do yea think?
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