Fair enough; this was nearly 25 years ago on a laptop with 4 megs of ram, and no internet connection, though, so firing up emacs (I used 'jed') was kind of a PI

Fair enough; this was nearly 25 years ago on a laptop with 4 megs of ram, and no internet connection, though, so firing up emacs (I used 'jed') was kind of a PITA and I'm not sure I even had the info pages. In those days, it would have been sufficient to have tar czvf something.tar.gz some_directory/ tar xzvf some.tar.gz In the man page.