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From: "T.Pospisek's MailLists" <tpo2@spin.ch>
To: Charles Hallenbeck <2ndsight@taconic.net>
Cc: Lar Kaufman <lark@world.std.com>, blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: More on "man" and editors
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 01:18:49 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981218011534.32030A-100000@mail.spin.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981217162742.773A-100000@darkstar.taconic.net>

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Lar --
> Thank you for those interesting observations and for the documentation.
> I appreciate the "instant education" this list is providing.

But is it >really< necessary to post all the man pages to the list when
all it takes is either a private email or something like:

  please type "man vi" at the promt

Please consider that:

a) people are paying for their bandwidth/internet connection
b) there are >many< places to inform yourself about these things not least
   of which are various linux/unix newbie lists.

*
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