From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 369 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2023 02:10:33 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 14 Dec 2023 02:10:33 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F58843E68; Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:10:28 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1702519828; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding:list-id:list-help: list-owner:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post; bh=JeDq6dXS8dYeFBrtfNuuCpOh+pXOoh1xvzVHikkAaa8=; b=1DVeuy9lAz/oyXV03tNx/N5Kd7QMqfnGiT4OgfzJQtAi7wd4tb74t5MV3KlBy2mh05r6oV eqG8qw6MjtoWC0z1KEuIcB0Zdd9yG5cRxhdklHNln8eG4hKM0NcdDTe29Uu4jWx/z7sAW7 bCCLxGp6hHmFwkMn3z23mHlCrOEp/fM= Received: from mail-4325.protonmail.ch (mail-4325.protonmail.ch [185.70.43.25]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A9D4343E65 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:10:20 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1702519818; x=1702779018; bh=JeDq6dXS8dYeFBrtfNuuCpOh+pXOoh1xvzVHikkAaa8=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:Message-ID:Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date: Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID:Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=TKRoN1iSDLJB6qpDenvwRfI7aR7cuRKrZPe7OnmQnqpRueLzAuIaqQyJrWnOth7Zu zkKvu9moVSJroz8NJjv075qGu8BBo8Jg2OUvyt5eEthar2dPy27iYdmfaJHH4yofDv gaat5KMCtfRJo1SV+d8bIHKJvTpDN9WMPfB9RhlBxFR286/nttVIUviqb9XqNrZx2N RDSK2zw80X5RaxMXDCt2Yp277P3Q6bSkZ6FRnMm7Po/YA0/jCUC/7lcf4rtOaimh9s xgY8OnYEOOG8ydzdeSMD8Q+NhjadX52LFZMlvsSfhzY1hzjWgM6YWkzlJVkGe6QXzA Ny/rnCvVTjYAw== Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 02:10:09 +0000 To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Message-ID: Feedback-ID: 35591162:user:proton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: NVOTJX654LXSOMH7FDRUX4VVN4HQF534 X-Message-ID-Hash: NVOTJX654LXSOMH7FDRUX4VVN4HQF534 X-MailFrom: segaloco@protonmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Possible Moment of u_man/a_man Split List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: segaloco via TUHS Reply-To: segaloco Somewhere between UNIX Release 3.0 and Release 4.1, a portion of the User's= Manual was split off into a separate Administrator's Manual, leading to a = reordering of the sections among other things.=C2=A0 In the directories, th= ese pieces would be placed in u_man and a_man respectively. There may be some evidence of the manual being intact as of 4.0 or at least= not completely separated. I've found consistently that references to manp= ages in the Documents for UNIX Release 4.0 collection follow their pre-spli= t numbering and all refer to the User's Manual. The catch is that all refe= rences are to the UNIX User's Manual Release 3.0, so this may not point con= clusively to the state of /usr/man on disk at the time. The Release 4.1 Ad= ministrator's Manual hasn't turned up yet but the User's Manual reflects th= e renumbering and is less the a_man pages. To complete the circle, the var= ious Release 5.0 revisions of the documents do refer to the Administrator's= Manual where appropriate. Was the manual getting split up of any great shock or was it to be expected= as the software grew? It would come to happen again between SysV and SVR2= with p_man. Out of curiosity I checked how my own manpage set is organize= d, it seems to be of the research order, with special files in section 4 ra= ther than section 7 for instance. I've never studied how far reaching the = different orders are. - Matt G.