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On Fri, 26 May 2006, Michael Ahlers wrote: > As this debate has raged on for nearly a week (or more?) now, I think it > is time we propose a new approach to resolve once and for all this "help > switch dilemma." The way help should work is: At the shell prompt, prepend "man " to the name of the command; hit return; read the help. That's how it worked on every BTL UNIX, thanks mainly to Doug McIlroy. It's hateful that it doesn't work today. -- Tom Duff. Utilizes the latest Fibonacci tuning fork technology!
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