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On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:18 AM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

MAN pages were written by people that know the topic extremely well, for
people that know the topic exceptionally well.


A better way of putting is that *the Unix man pages were written for those
who need to know the topic as well as persons who ask questions on this
list need to know the topic!*

They have a style, as does IBM i documentation. They have very rich
informational content, as does IBM i documentation.

IBM i will be gone long before Unix man pages are gone.

As we Unix weenies have admonished one another for decades:

RTFM
!!

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