From: newsham@lava.net (Tim Newsham)
Subject: [TUHS] v6: where is "man"?
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:32:00 -1000 (HST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.64.1010210731030.25174@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC024E7.6090705@softjar.se>
> Yes, it does a "$(PAGER) /usr/doc/man/cat1/man.0" :-)
I don't think thats accurate in v6 unix (or many other
early research unixen). The man pages arent preformatted
into .0 files afaik.
> Maybe I should have added a smiley. My point was that originally you didn't
> have a man program. You had man-pages, and you looked at them any way you
> preferred. And that is what you observed, but didn't seem to grasp, when you
> looked at V6 (hence the question about where the man-program is).
>
> Short answer then: there is none.
I don't think that is accurate.
> Johnny
Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com
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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 [this message]
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
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