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From: pss@unh.UUCP (Paul S. Sawyer == paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: man pages for the 6386
Message-ID: <1092@unh.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 18:14:14 GMT
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In article <502@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>, rwa@aurora.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander) writes:
> From my experience, they consider the 3b2/600 a single user computer (no
> man pages).  They _almost_ consider the 3b4000 (a $500,000+ machine) single
> user - for that, we could get man pages, but not the troff source; just
> ascii files that had come out the back of nroff.  We are 5.3.1 source
> licensed, btw.  I am less than impressed.
> 
> 	Ross
> 
> ps: We bought Fortran XLA from ATT recently, and it came complete with an
> on-line man page entry - same as above; just something suitable to be copied
> to a printer.
> 
> 	rwa


On my 3B15, System V, Release 2, I have the man directory, but that is
useless because I don't have nroff (once, I believe, one of the characteristic
features of Unix, now optional at extra cost);  I also have a catman directory,
so I CAN get the info on my terminal, but my printers don't like it...  The
(printed) manual also says that the disk versions may be out of date...

Remember when ATT were experts in electronic communications?






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