On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...]
> > And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both.
[help and man]
>
> There's also 'info foo', which for some values of foo will be more
> helpful than either of the above, for others will provide exactly the
> same information through a different interface, and for others will
> provide no information at all.
The nice thing about info is that it /actually/ falls back to the man
page when no info page is available. So it is a common front-end of
sorts for both. OTOH, the venerable groff has gained a hyperlink markup
recently [1] ("recently" in its time scale), thus bridging yet another
gap separating man and info.
[...]
> * has learned that learn doesn't help
[...]
> Does anyone have an idea what this old reference may be talking about?
Although I did some first Unix steps on a "real" AT&T (a port for M68K),
with ksh (and a vi which dumped core on lines >1K!), I have no clue,
sorry.
Cheers
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