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Woods" To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list In-Reply-To: <20200407104251.GA89097@clarinet.employees.org> References: <1jKkMQ-2hN-00@marmaro.de> <854f7b58-9ba0-476f-a7e6-8579f4a8048d@localhost> <1jKlvG-4JB-00@marmaro.de> <3A36FF0A-7617-4B26-B4F3-FC183BF9A7FC@ronnatalie.com> <20200407104251.GA89097@clarinet.employees.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/25.3 (x86_64--netbsd) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Face: ; j3Eth2XV8h1Yfu*uL{<:dQ$#E[DB0gemGZJ"J#4fH*][ lz; @-iwMv_u\6uIEKR0KY"=MzoQH#CrqBN`nG_5B@rrM8,f~Gr&h5a\= List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --pgp-sign-Multipart_Wed_Apr__8_15:16:10_2020-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At Tue, 7 Apr 2020 11:42:51 +0100, Derek Fawcus wrote: Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership >=20 > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 07:57:55PM -0400, Ronald Natalie wrote: > >=20 > > The manuals aren=A2t really a book (and again, they weren=A2t really pu= blished as a book) >=20 > A bit later on but... >=20 > I'm prettry sure I managed to read the man pages published as a book while > at Uni, so between '86 and '90. I found it in the University Library. >=20 > It was published by Western Electric, and had either a dark blue or black= cover. Indeed the Unix manuals were available as printed books. Volume One was the manual pages and Volume Two the articles from /usr/doc. I remember seeing soft-cover bound copies of the 7th Edition manuals, first in someone's collection, then for sale, probably in the Computer Literacy bookshop on Lawrence in Sunnyvale, I think with a dark red cover on the ones I saw there. For some reason I never acquired a copy (probably because by then I already had several other sets of Unix manuals, including a complete set of boxed AT&T manuals. I think the next time this happened in the exact same way was with the "Unix Research System Tenth Edition" books published by Saunders College Publishing in 1990. (Which I probably bought at Computer Literacy.) There were also of course 4.4BSD manuals published and printed jointly by The USENIX Association and O'Reilly & Associates in 1994. > However, there were books of System V man pages published, since I bought > some of them. Yes, Prentice Hall's "UNIX System V/386" manuals from 1988 grace my shelves, along with an incomplete set of the UNIX Press "SVR4" manuals from 1992. --=20 Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms --pgp-sign-Multipart_Wed_Apr__8_15:16:10_2020-1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQTWEnAIIlcZX4oAawJie18UwlnHhQUCXo5NLgAKCRBie18UwlnH hWOwAJ9mwDUfZTY2CIDoh98Rk4jiKEGBsACfS2Tpfkz/qYI19dLljVezI5WAwt8= =nZLU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp-sign-Multipart_Wed_Apr__8_15:16:10_2020-1--