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- From: merce@xenitec.on.ca (Jim Mercer)
- Subject: Re: why no man command on 3B2/1000
- Organization: XeniTec Consulting, Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:36:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.153641.23054@xenitec.on.ca>
- References: <1992Aug6.145600.19913@wheaton.wheaton.edu> <1992Aug8.221837.1550@cti-software.nl> <1992Aug9.120701.17914@rexago8.uucp>
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- In article <1992Aug9.120701.17914@rexago8.uucp> hc05@rexago8.uucp (Beirne Konarski) writes:
- >pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
- >>dougs@david.wheaton.edu (Doug Smith - SGA) writes:
- >>>I'm a little new to the 3B2 and I'm wondering why this system has no man
- >>>command or man pages. Should it be here or doesn't AT&T include it? Is
- >>>it available somewhere?
- >
- >>man is part of the Documenters Workbench, which is unbundled
- >>from the rest of Unix.
- >
- >Check this before going out and spending money. We had a loaner copy of the
- >DWB in and it didn't include man. I was told by NCR that the man pages were
- >part of some other package that did not sell and was discontinued.
-
- i forget the exact details, but with SysVR3.2, AT&T farmed the man pages out
- to prentice hall publishers.
-
- at that time you could purchase a set of online man pages for $10K or something
- like that.
-
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