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by ajross 76 days ago
> If man was designed by someone with any taste at all it would at least give you a menu [...]

My goodness. Man was written on a paper teletype.

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And since man pages could take minutes to print out, if you needed one you'd tear that section of paper off and keep it in a binder for future (and faster) reference.
So? That didn't stop `man -a`.