Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:49:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "User Rdkeys Robert D. Keys" <rdkeys@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing manual chapters? Message-ID: <199710132049.QAA15829@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971012233736.9609S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Oct 12, 97 11:38:42 pm"
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> > > Why are the PSD, SMM, and USD missing chapters? (in /usr/share/doc) > > > > They're AT&T copyright. To quote from the O'Reilly edition of SMM: > > > > SMM: 15, 16 1nd 17 are copyright 1979, AT&T Bell Laboratories > > Incorporated. Document SMM: 14 is a modification of an earlier > > document that is copyrighted 1979 by AT&T Bell Laboratories > > Incorporated... > > > > You can get them all in the printed version, but it's not worth the > > trouble. They're pretty out-of-date. They are out of date, but they make fun reading... and some history. > You can also grab them from http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/doc/, where they > have been conveniently formatted in HTML with xref's. Gee, what is that html stuff, ......real geeks like me still use that bloody ol' troff.....(:+}}. I will have to check that html stuff. The troff and ascii versions used to be in the Berkeley library at: ocf.berkeley.edu/pub/Library/Computer and the postscript versions of the DWB docs were on AT&T's library at: netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cs/cstr according to a faded stickemupnote still on the side of my filing cabinet that dates from about 1990 or thereabouts, if memory is correct. Whether or not any of that stuff is still about, one would need to do some serious webscraping in the bilgewaters of the net. They really ought to be relased, at least for historical sakes. The last time I checked any for them was about 3 years back, when I was trying to get a DWB source license, and was looking around for the manuals that still existed. They probably exist somewhere on some dusty old reel to reel 9 track tape. I do remember seeing them, one time, on an old 8 inch CP/M disk, nroffed for output to a TTY40 chain printer.....(:+}}.....long, long ago..... Else, get the O'Reilly versions or find the original AT&T books, cuz TTY40's are dinosaurs, anymore, too.....(:+}}. Hmmm, I wonder if my old TTY40 would interface still to a modern FreeBSD box, for that fine old ear-shattering braaaaapf, braaaaapf, braaaaapf sound of a print chain flying by at speed, a line at a time..... Bob Keys rdkeys@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu
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