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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL !?
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:16:31 GMT
- Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9301040816.33@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1hr3mmINN9cn@spool.mu.edu> <C0AMMu.Lwq@queernet.org> <1i8a0sINNh0b@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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- In article <1i8a0sINNh0b@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- >In article <C0AMMu.Lwq@queernet.org> rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
- >>since 1984. UnixWare *is* UNIX. Nothing's missing; you simply can
- >>do things without spelling out commands on a ouija board *IF* *YOU*
- >>*CHOOSE* *TO*...
- >
- >Unfortunately this isn't true. There are no on-line manpages, for
- >example, and I'm not even sure that you can get printed manpages. I
- >didn't examine UnixWare much further to discover what else was
- >missing; for the purposes for which we were evaluating UnixWare, that
- >was enough to kill it.
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- Did you do a followup call to Novell to see if online manpages and/or
- printed manpages are available? I would suspect that they have various
- configuration levels for the UnixWare package, with one of them being a
- minimal package to make it look attractive on small systems.
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- Rick Kelly rmkhome!rmk@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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