From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] v6: where is "man"?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:25:33 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101020.092533.445287078.imp@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101020052532.GA5690@minnie.tuhs.org>
In message: <20101020052532.GA5690 at minnie.tuhs.org>
Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> writes:
: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 03:16:37PM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote:
: > I'm playing with unix v6 right now. I don't see the "man"
: > binary anywhere.. anyone know why?
:
: The v6 man.1 manpage says "[man] is a shell command file",
: so there is no source code, just the shell script.
: Still, that doesn't explain why the script file missing.
: It's not on the Dennis_v6 tape, nor the Ken_Wellsch_v6
: tape in the archive. Intruiging!
That's very interesting indeed. FreeBSD has gone "back to the future"
here and replaced the man program that called groff, et al, with a
shell script. Given the complexity of the shell script, however, I
imagine it wouldn't work too well on v6. :)
Warner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-20 1:16 Tim Newsham
2010-10-20 5:25 ` Warren Toomey
2010-10-20 5:44 ` Jason Stevens
2010-10-20 6:18 ` Tim Newsham
2010-10-20 15:25 ` Warner Losh [this message]
[not found] <mailman.1.1287540001.3876.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2010-10-20 12:24 ` Johnny Billquist
2010-10-21 1:06 ` Tim Newsham
2010-10-21 11:32 ` Johnny Billquist
2010-10-21 17:32 ` Tim Newsham
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