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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: CBS UNIX(tm) Manuals.
Message-ID: <305@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 02:38:39 GMT
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In article <9427@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>So, I think this was just an oversight at a time when the release number was
>>not nearly as important as it has become now.
>
>The release is not all that important.  Very little if anything in
>the CBS manuals is incorrect for newer releases of UNIX System V;
>it's merely incomplete.

My point was though, if there is concern now about SysV release numbers, it is
because SOME of the release numbers indicate major compatibility changes:

Release 3.2 is the merged UNIX/XENIX release, and Release 4 is supposed to
be the merged USG/BSD/SUN release.

When the CBS manuals were produced, release numbers were even less important
than they are now, which is why they are not mentioned.


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