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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX man command
Summary: AT&T unbundled it
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Date: 4 Jan 90 04:34:43 GMT
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In article <4083@brazos.Rice.edu> schafer@brazos.rice.EDU
(Richard A. Schafer) wrote:
We just put up AIX on an RT, and find that the man command is missing. 
>Our IBM rep now tells us about some PRPQ which contains the man command
>and the man files, perhaps at a cost per machine.

AT&T unbundled the manuals from the basic System V license some years
ago.  Some vendors of System V-based operating systems decided to
bundle the manuals (and the added cost) into their basic offering, and
some did not.  For example, I think SCO bundled man pages with their
text processing package (nroff), which costs extra.  BSD-based systems
(DEC, HP) were not affected by this change, since their licenses
derive from 32V, not from SysV.

>Has anyone ever run into this before and is there another way out?  Do
>you indeed have to pay $58/machine just to get what every other Unix
>system I know of provides standard?

You might buy one, and let users access it over your network.
On the other hand, you might consider how much cheaper it is
to buy the on-line manuals than to buy just one paper copy.

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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