Hi Tadziu, > > > Man pages are not tutorials or complete manuals > > > > Yes they are, or should be. They used to be. > > Fairly complete manuals, yes; tutorials, I don't think they ever > were.
Yes, I was referring only to the "complete manuals" bit. Thanks for pointing out my ambiguity. It was the accompanying papers that used to introduce programs in a more tutorial fashion, e.g. 7th Ed.'s http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Trees/V7/usr/doc/ Cheers, Ralph.
