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From: newsham@lava.net (Tim Newsham)
Subject: [TUHS] v6: where is "man"?
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:16:37 -1000 (HST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.64.1010191507110.25174@malasada.lava.net> (raw)

I'm playing with unix v6 right now.  I don't see the "man"
binary anywhere.. anyone know why?

I have v6 installed from tape. The tape has images for three
disks apparently, root, source and docs. The docs image has
a man directory with the man pages in them. I don't see a
man binary anywhere though, and I don't see the sources to
man in the sources directory either.

I checked the disk images available on the simh "kits" page.
It has man pages in /mnt/man but no sources or binary.
(by the way, this image is missing /usr/sys for some reason,
which is why I am running an installation from tape).

I also checked the
PDP-11/Trees/V6 directory on TUHS and similarly dont see
sources or binaries for man (though the man pages are present
in /usr/man).

There's even a /usr/man/man1/man.1, formatted online here:
http://wwwlehre.dhbw-stuttgart.de/~helbig/os/v6/doc/I/man.html

anyone know why the source and binary are missing from the
distributions?

Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com



             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-20  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-20  1:16 Tim Newsham [this message]
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
     [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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