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From: nick@inset.UUCP (Nick Stoughton)
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Subject: Re: Unix, Unixpeople, Usenix - from a non-compunerd's point of view...
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 05:47:11 EDT
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In article <1542@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbpavo.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes:
>You know what?  I can never find anything in any of them.  When I want to
>look something up, I'll dig out any reasonably old copy of the UNIX
>programmers manual - either 4.1BSD or System III or System Vr1 will do
>nicely.  4.2 would probably do fine too except that we can't get the
>official Usenix ones, so I have a thick notebook which is unwieldy.
>Or I'll just look in /usr/man.

I know the feeling all too well...I've resorted to looking in a
V5 (yes, version 5, not Sys V) on more than one occasion, though
I must admit that the commonest manual I use is V7. Even the distributed
4.2 manuals are too thick to fit into a single binder, which is what I
really want. Trouble is, the more that goes into a system, the more
documentation there has to be with it.