From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy)
Subject: [TUHS] finding help in v7 in 1980
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:12:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171110181251.817151FF94@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171110180641.GB25370@mcvoy.com>
Larry wrote:
> I believe the 4BSD manuals (those ones with red/yellow/green plastic
> binders) had listings of the commands with the synopsis, either they
> did or someone gave such a thing. That was a big jump start.
That sounds like the permuted index of the man page's whatis(1) line
built by ptx(1). Yes, it was great to skim through that and jump off to
whatever caught one's eye.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-10 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-10 18:00 Will Senn
2017-11-10 18:06 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-10 18:12 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2017-11-10 19:18 ` Chet Ramey
2017-11-10 18:18 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-11-10 18:19 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-10 18:21 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-10 19:15 ` Jon Forrest
2017-11-10 19:20 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-10 19:47 ` William Pechter
2017-11-10 19:51 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-11 16:46 ` Nemo
2017-11-10 18:32 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-10 19:35 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-10 22:28 ` Dave Horsfall
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