From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 14 16:37:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA26239 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:37:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA26229 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous215.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.215]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA18234; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 01:32:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id BAA01776; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 01:30:42 +0200 (MET DST) To: "User Rdkeys Robert D. Keys" Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org, Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Missing manual chapters? References: <199710132049.QAA15829@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> From: Wolfram Schneider Date: 15 Oct 1997 01:30:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: "User Rdkeys Robert D. Keys"'s message of Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:49:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Lines: 28 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "User Rdkeys Robert D. Keys" writes: > > > > 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 They're pretty out-of-date. There are all (including the encumbered chapters) available as troff sources at ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/unix/ > and the postscript versions of the DWB docs were on AT&T's library at: > > netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cs/cstr AT&T is dead. Try netlib.bell-labs.com -> Computing Sciences Research Center -> Papers/Technical Reports. Some papers are really funny, e.g. Rob Pike explain how to write a Window System in some hundreds lines C code ;-) -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/