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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: System V manuals (was Re: What real non-UNIX 'C' compilers...)
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Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 10:37:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 10:37:58 1987
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In article <29930@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> > The UNIX System User's Manual.
> 
> The book "UNIX System V Programmer's Reference Manual", from AT&T...

Haven't seen the book you cite anywhere. All the bookstores around here
have the SVID-based one only.

> Presumably,
> *this* is what is currently being distributed as the standard manual, not the
> one you cite.

I wish it was. Unfortunately the book I cite is the only one I've seen,
and it's also the one Microport is distributing as their UNIX manual.

> I vaguely remember one such manual which was really a reprint of the SVID, and
> as such had "fread" neither in section 3S nor in section 2, but in section
> BA_LIB.

I didn't say it was in section 2 or section 3. I said it was in BA_SYS which
is as close to section 2 as I can find. If it was in BA_LIB I'd have no problem
with it.

> Remember, we're NOT just talking about "traditional UNIX systems" here.  This
> "read" could be implemented atop a non-UNIX system, or a UNIX system with more
> general facilities for sharing than "traditional" systems.

Since the title of the message is "System V manuals", don't you think we should
be talking about System V?
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