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From: shore@adobe.UUCP (Andrew Shore)
Newsgroups: net.usenix
Subject: Re: announcing the availability of 4.3BSD Usenix manuals
Message-ID: <1817@adobe.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 16:03:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  1 16:03:02 1986
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In article <15867@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> 
jordan@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Jordan M. Hayes) writes:
>[ shuffle, shuffle ... where did I put my USENIX hat? Ah ... there
>  it is ... fits pretty good ... ]
>...
>ps: why would you want a set of 4.3 manuals (let alone sysV ones)
>    if you run 4.2 Sun? Never mind ...


I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS ATTITUDE!  Especially from the USENIX
"technical consultant".  Can you say portable code? I knew you
could!

I might want manuals for some system I don't own so that I can
write code which will compile and run there.  I might want to
write shell scripts  which will run on 4.3BSD.  I might want to
write Unix utilities (which make system calls or use library
routines) which will compile and run on 4.3BSD.  My only chance
at doing so is having the documentation.

If this is the kind of assistance and support you get from
USENIX, go with /usr/group.  They at least are interested in
things like portability and standards.

--Andy