Why not try to use documentation that already exists (where possible, of

course)? Why keep reinventing the wheel just for the sake of reinventing the

wheel???
For example, I can buy a whole suite of manuals on SVR4/386 from Prentice Hall

for about $300. Yes yes, that's pretty steep, but what are the realistic

alternatives?
Suppose Linux was heading to where SVR4/386 already is: most of our manuals

would already be written for us. And we would rarely have to cope with Linux

quirks when porting the various applications. And we would have a roadmap of

where we were going.
I know we don't want to do this, but as a hacker, I often (though not always)

like hacking on new things, not redoing existing things just so I can say

"I did it my way".

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Doug Evans               | "You're just supposed to sit here?"

dje@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca    |               - Worf in a mud bath.