>Once upon a time Carl Oppedahl shaped the electrons to say...
>>I understand from other postings that Livingston is preparing a Command Line
>>Reference. Perhaps one last check would make sense, to see if everything in
>>the symbol table is also in the Reference.
>
>Yes, it is already at the printers. This command didn't make it. There is
>the slimmest of chances it can get in after the blueline, but don't count on
>it. That would effect pagination, which would change all the references,
>index, toc, etc. ie, it would require a major revision in the print copy,
>thereby delaying the manual several weeks - printers have slots, you miss
>your allotted date you have to wait for the next open one.
>
>ComOS changes very, very rapidly. Quite a number of the commands in the
>guide didn't even exist when the first draft was written. It has been a
>constant revision, and I know a few of the latest editions to come out of
>the development program came to late. You have to stop revising at some point
>and just print it.
Seems to me that this is what web sites are for. How about an online (HTML,
perhaps, rather than Acrobat) command line reference?