Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 21:20:53 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of catman from base Message-ID: <78909.1505251253@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709121210140.54096@orthanc.ca> References: <20170912184200.GD99742@gmail.com> <77524.1505242222@critter.freebsd.dk> <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709121210140.54096@orthanc.ca>
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-------- In message <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709121210140.54096@orthanc.ca>, Lyndon Nerenb= erg writes: >> That was actually not why catman was brought into the world: ATT/USL >> thought text-processing was The Goods so they unbundled it base SVR >> and invented catman to make up for the missing nroff. > >Not quite. They (AT&T) sold the rights to sell typeset manuals to some = >publishing house (I forget which), at which point they stopped shipping = >the *roff source for the manpages on the source tapes. Instead, you got = >pre-formatted "cat" pages on the source tape. I think this happened = >starting with SVR3. I'm pretty sure that SVR1 had catman and roff was an extra and somewhat pricey software package. -- = Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe = Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence= .
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