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From: rac@sherpa.uucp (Roger Cornelius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Online Manual needed (was Re: ISC vs SCO UNIX review)
Message-ID: <173@sherpa.uucp>
Date: 11 Nov 89 03:44:52 GMT
References: <1618@ctisbv.cti-software.nl>
Organization: Personal System Computing,  St. Petersburg, FL
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In article <1618@ctisbv.cti-software.nl>,
	pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
< dpi@loft386.UUCP (Doug Ingraham) writes:
< 
<>I know I have seen the online question before.  If I remember correctly
<>the answer as to why they (insert Unix Vendor here) don't include man pages
<>is that AT&T treats them as source and wants an outrageous amount for
<>them.  Something like $10000.  Seems crazy to me too.
< 
< This amount is for the  unformatted man pages. Surely, any Unix vendor
< could include nroff formatted man pages if SCO can.
< -- 

I recently installed SCO's 2.2 -> 2.3 man page update and they are now
distributed in unformatted form.

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Roger A. Cornelius           rac@sherpa            uunet!sherpa!rac