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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: CBS UNIX(tm) Manuals.
Message-ID: <657@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 89 06:15:16 GMT
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Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <305@dcs.UUCP> wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
>In article <9427@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>
>>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.
>
>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.

And then there's the Prentice Hall UNIX System V/386 series.  Only a couple
of months ago I made my final 'payment' to own the complete set.  I
can remember wondering if they expected these manuals to last through
all those releases.  I guessed that they would come out with addenda
volumes to describe the changes in 3.2 and maybe again in 4.0.  

Boy, was I wrong!  There's a whole new set of manuals for System V/386,
*release 3.2*.  Same high prices, and I didn't see anything like an
upgrade for the original set.  I haven't even cracked open some of
the manuals and they're now obsolete!

Grrrr!

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