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From: neozeed@gmail.com (Jason Stevens)
Subject: [TUHS] v6: where is "man"?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:44:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikmng8YMbaJDank7=5OBebrfOJLv3FZs6dBeKrt@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101020052532.GA5690@minnie.tuhs.org>

I just booted up the interdata version and... it doesn't have 'man'
either...

I get the impression from /usr/doc/man   that the man pages on the ID32 were
setup with a 'make' command to format and print them all....

I guess the man command didn't exist...????

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:

> 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!
>
> Cheers,
>         Warren
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-20  5:44 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 [this message]
2010-10-20  6:18     ` Tim Newsham
2010-10-20 15:25   ` Warner Losh
     [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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