Time to shut down this list?

[Nikolas Britton]

> Speaking of "help" I have always though this sould at least be an 
> alise to man (or "man man", or "man %foo")... but what I really want a 
> clone of the MSDOS 6.xx Help system of the same name, when you typed 
> in help with no args. it would load a "hypertext" curses program that 
> listed all the commands (like "whatis") and then you could select a 
> command for detail info about it. anyways... in the DOS world you 
> always type'd "help, "help foo", or "foo /?" for help so for most 
> people new to unix and freebsd whatis and man are unknow to them.


I may have a simple solution to this: create a new man page named 
"help", in this man page is a brief (newbie oriented) one page guide on 
how to use the man pages and how to find commands to use (whatis / 
apropos, btw who came up with that name? I could not remember it if my 
life depended on it). this man page would then be aliased as "help". 
what do yea think?