James K. Lowden <jklow...@schemamania.org> wrote:
> Attached is a straw man 1st draft of what an introduction to the man > system might look like. If it clears the threshold of raspberries, > perhaps we can mold it into something useful. > > I think the page should be called man-intro, or intro-man. (Need > help? Never fear, Intro Man is here!) I included what I wish > someone had told me back when VAXes were in production. > > This is my work. I'm happy to consign it to the groff project or FSF, > or to the public domain. Pretty good first draft! I have a few quibbles here and there, of course, The biggest one is about the man(ual) sections. If you start describing the sections, you might as well finish it. Aside: my primary interaction with VAXen was with VAX/VMS. I kind of liked EDT, although vi(m) is my long-term steady. EDT’s journal came in handy in the mid-afternoon, when the developers fired off a compile run and the system bogged down to the point where the multiplexers figured it had died. When it came back, the journal would pound through all the edits we typed in before the network hiccup. (This was somewhere around 1998.) — Larry