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by dekhn 2437 days ago
the VMS HELP system was my introduction to "learn a system by using depth-first HELP". I also recall eventually coming across the page which explained dynamic linking (I couldn't even link hello world with my 2 block disk quota).
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Same here.

My basic introduction was that my boss sat me in front of a VT220 terminal and told me about the HELP command.

Later I discovered the absolute awesomeness that was VMS (at that time, OpenVMS came later) documentation.

For me and to this day it's the benchmark how documentation should be written an organized.