At Tue, 7 Apr 2020 11:42:51 +0100, Derek Fawcus wrote: Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership > > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 07:57:55PM -0400, Ronald Natalie wrote: > > > > The manuals arenąt really a book (and again, they werenąt really published as a book) > > A bit later on but... > > I'm prettry sure I managed to read the man pages published as a book while > at Uni, so between '86 and '90. I found it in the University Library. > > It was published by Western Electric, and had either a dark blue or black cover. Indeed the Unix manuals were available as printed books. Volume One was the manual pages and Volume Two the articles from /usr/doc. I remember seeing soft-cover bound copies of the 7th Edition manuals, first in someone's collection, then for sale, probably in the Computer Literacy bookshop on Lawrence in Sunnyvale, I think with a dark red cover on the ones I saw there. For some reason I never acquired a copy (probably because by then I already had several other sets of Unix manuals, including a complete set of boxed AT&T manuals. I think the next time this happened in the exact same way was with the "Unix Research System Tenth Edition" books published by Saunders College Publishing in 1990. (Which I probably bought at Computer Literacy.) There were also of course 4.4BSD manuals published and printed jointly by The USENIX Association and O'Reilly & Associates in 1994. > However, there were books of System V man pages published, since I bought > some of them. Yes, Prentice Hall's "UNIX System V/386" manuals from 1988 grace my shelves, along with an incomplete set of the UNIX Press "SVR4" manuals from 1992. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms