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From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: I need the the stinking man pages (software)
Message-ID: <1991May29.014413.14828@ms.uky.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 01:44:13 GMT
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> If I have a 3B2/300 that has no man pages, what are my options to go about
> getting them?  Is there a freeware source, or is this a purchase only item?
> Thanx!!

I don't know how relevant this is, but I once called AT&T about getting
man pages in a machine-readable form for Sysv/386.  The only way they
were available would have been to buy a commercial document license, 
allowing the purchaser to publish the docs any way he saw fit (paying
AT&T a royalty for each copy sold).  The cost was a cool $10,000.  Nobody
on usenet wanted to do a group buy :-(
-- 
Kenneth Herron                                            kherron@ms.uky.edu
University of Kentucky                                       +1 606 257 2975
Department of Mathematics       "So this won't be a total loss, can you make
         it so guys get to throw their mothers-in-law in?"  "Sure, why not?"