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0 pointscbhl12y ago0 comments

I suspect it's supposed to be a pun on "man". The only other tool in this space that comes to mind is GNU's "info"...

What name would you have given the tool?

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dictum12y ago

"boy" is an alternative, though I'm sure it would do very little to placate the misogyny complaints.

liquidzoot12y ago

Literally anything else.

avalaunch12y ago

How about Xpages? X for example but also to provide a nice counter to manpages?

aiiane12y ago

tinpages. That way the tools do what they say on the tin.

misnome12y ago

xmp?

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