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  From: Russell, Richard (DEH) <rrussell@deh.sa.gov.au>
  To  : 'Dale Long'" <dalel@loftuscomp.com.au>, "Hawkins, Justin <dalel@loftuscomp.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:15:41 +0930

RE: Bash Shell Scriping resource?

> It is more of a reference 
> than a manual.

It's a Reference Manual...

> Given the right structure, I am sure that the information in 
> the man page
> could be represented in a more valuable way using the same 
> amount of text.

There's two different goals here -- Reference and learning. It's hard to
learn from a reference, but it's equally hard to use a learning book as a
reference.

hence, we need _two_ sets of documentation... :)

rr

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