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From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ISC vs SCO UNIX review
Summary: System V man pages are somewhat expensive...
Message-ID: <1486@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 89 17:45:17 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Organization: Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth
	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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In article <927@fiver.UUCP> palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:
    
    
      What's interesting here is they must have the man pages on disk. I'll 
    bet it's cheaper to sell the floppies than buy the books. Most 
    developers have large systems to install man pages anyways. Sun's got
    man pages so why dosn't ISC, ESIX, ATT and/or Intel?  Come on guys
    hows about moveing out of the dark ages.

The difference between Sun and the others is that the Sun/BSD man pages are
still based on a license where they were bundled with UNIX. The current
System V situation is such that the man pages are an extra product, to be
licensed separately, so, tough on the customer.
-- 
Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi           | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth        | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg
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