On Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:15:27 -0700 Art Bahrs said:
>On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Carl Hughes wrote:
>> TTUTIL is documented in: Customizing Terminal and Printer Type Files With
>> the Workstation Configurator, Customer Order Number:    5959-2870.  This
>> manual, unfortunately, is not included on LaserRom.
>
>um.... I thot all the manuals were on the LaserROM????   Anybody want to
>comment on this?
 
There are several exceptions.  Besides the above, I know of the Serial
Device and Printer Configuration manual (not exact title), the newer
Image/SQL and ODBC manuals (that might have changed), and most all of the
Posix manuals are absent.  Arguably the Posix reference manuals are simply
the man pages, but that gets into the unix mindset where "RTFM" as we all
know as "Read The Fine Manual" (OK, the third word isn't quite right) becomes
RTFMP (Read The Fine Man Page).  If there's anything more annoying than a
RFTM answer, it's a RFTMP answer :-)
 
For the unix virgins reading the above, unix 'man' <-> MPE ':help', but even
worse.  You have to know what you're looking for ahead of time, there's no
index, or table of contents, or subtopics, or otherwise.  (OK, yeah, there
is the whatis file...)
 
There is one "good" manual on Posix - the Posix Shell and Utilities User's
Guide - but it's not on the CD either.
 
Jeff