gamiddleton@thunder.UUCP (Guy Middleton) (08/01/84)
Our distribution copy of System V (release 1) apparently has source
for the manual, but not for what you would normally find in /usr/doc.
Is this normal? If it is, how do we go about getting these things?
Guy Middleton
Computer Centre
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, Ont.
..{allegra,clyde,decvax,utcsrgv}!watmath!thunder!gamiddletonhenry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (08/01/84)
> Our distribution copy of System V (release 1) apparently has source > for the manual, but not for what you would normally find in /usr/doc. > Is this normal? If it is, how do we go about getting these things? This is "normal", the &*&%&^$^&%'s at AT&T having decided to do things this way. I seem to recall hearing that AT&T had gotten enough flak over this silly policy that they were planning to make the machine-readable documents available (separately, at extra cost, of course!), but I don't recall hearing an official announcement of this. If you're source-licensed, you could get the older versions from a site with an older version of Unix (since a SysV source licence is supposed to cover all older Bell versions). -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
bob@SU-SHASTA.ARPA (08/09/84)
/usr/doc is available from AT&T in machine-readable form for the nominal price of $5000 (as I recall). Some people use their System III docs which came with the System III source. "AT&T: reaching out from new directions for your wallet" ^ | | < Humor; not to be taken seriously, especially by lawyers. Bob Toxen Silicon Graphics {decvax,ihnp4}!ucbvax!Shasta!olympus!bob