roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (03/01/91)
brandon@wa4mei.UUCP (Brandon Rhodes) writes: > is there a section 6 to the Unix manual? (in my best Bruce Philosopher's voice) THERE IS NO SECTION NUMBER SIX! Actually, section 6 is traditionally games. It still is in the 4.3BSD manuals you can get from Usenix. GOK what the suits have done to the manuals shipped with commercial versions of Unix. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"
subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) (03/01/91)
In article <1073@wa4mei.UUCP> brandon@wa4mei.UUCP (Brandon Rhodes) writes: >On the desk next to my computer sits Volume II of the Unix User's >Manual, and it contains sections one through five. On the shelf >behind me sits Volume one, containing the (1M) additions to section >1 and section 7, which details device I/O. A curious thought has >struck me: is there a section 6 to the Unix manual? If not, why, >and if so, what is it and does anyone have it? Section 6 is games, so you're really not missing much by not having it printed out. Don't you have online manuals -- if so, you can cd /usr/man/man6 and see for yourself all the files there. -Kartik -- internet# find . -name core -exec cat {} \; |& tee /dev/tty* subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU -| Internet kartik@silvertone.Princeton.EDU (NeXT mail) SUBBARAO@PUCC.BITNET - Bitnet
dmturne@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner) (03/01/91)
In article <1073@wa4mei.UUCP> brandon@wa4mei.UUCP (Brandon Rhodes) writes: >On the desk next to my computer sits Volume II of the Unix User's >Manual, and it contains sections one through five. On the shelf >behind me sits Volume one, containing the (1M) additions to section >1 and section 7, which details device I/O. A curious thought has >struck me: is there a section 6 to the Unix manual? If not, why, >and if so, what is it and does anyone have it? Section 6 used to contain games. AT&T dropped section 6 from their UNIX manuals sometime after SVR2.?; probably with SVR3.0 . None of my SVR3 manuals have it. The INTRO(6) man page said: This section describes the recreational and educational programs found in the directory /usr/games. The availability of these programs may vary from system to system. -- Dave Turner 415/823-2001 {att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!dmturne