Greg, I got manpages! Thanks. I took the tarball, extracted the files, cpio'd 'em onto a tape cartridge image, pulled 'em off the cartridge onto /usr2/manpages, installed the Documenter's Workbench and: nroff -man echo.1      ECHO(1)                   UNIX System V ECHO(1)      NAME           echo - echo arguments      SYNOPSIS           echo [ arg ] ... Yeeha. Now to type in Stephen's version of man in shell script form :). Thanks, Will On 12/28/21 3:21 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Mon, 27 Dec 2021 09:11:20 -0800, "Seth Morabito" wrote: > Subject: Re: [TUHS] manpages in svr2 >> I don't believe AT&T ever distributed manpages for the 3B2, but if I'm >> wrong and someone has a link to a set, I would be very happy to >> archive them! It's quite possible that at some point someone compiled >> a set of manpages as a third-party package, but unfortunately so many >> of the old 3B2 archives disappeared in the late 2000s before I (or >> anyone else I know) had a chance to archive them completely. > I definitely had man pages on my 3B2/400 with SysVr3 (and r3.2). > > They were pre-formatted (catman), not troff source though, IIRC. > > This was true for all of UNIX System V, at least from 2.0 on. > > There was a separate "source" distribution for the documentation, called > the "Machine Readable Documentation", aka MRD. It contains source for > all of the system documentation, not just the manual pages. > > The separation was necessary due to the separate licensing of the > Documenter's Workbench. You couldn't format roff documents without it, > not even with nroff, so source for the documentation would be useless to > anyone who didn't also license DWB. (IIRC some Unix licensees kept > their versions of V7 nroff working on their later SysV releases so that > they could ship man page sources that would be usable, but using that > ancient troff with modern printers was painful even with Chris Lewis' > psroff.) > > The archive.org copy of SysVr2.0-NS32k contains source for DWB, MRD, as > well as the system and commands: > > https://archive.org/download/ATTUNIXSystemVRelease4Version2/SysVr2.0_32000.tgz > > I don't know if it is legal or not, but it's been there for ages. > > IIRC somewhere there on archive.org there's also a SysVr2 for VAX too, > complete with binaries and sources, and it has catman pages included. > > I do happen to have a copy of the MRD for SysVr3.2 for 3B2, but I don't > think it is legal. I also had a legal binary license for DWB-2.0 for > 3B2, but I don't think I have a copy of the media any more. > > -- > Greg A. Woods > > Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack > Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms